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Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron. Gwilt.

A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.

A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.

A hard, earthy ore of iron. Clay ironstone. See under Clay. -- Ironstone china, a hard white pottery, first made in England during the 18th century.

Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

A tall weed with purplish flowers (Vernonia Noveboracensis). The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.

A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.

Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.

An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [R.] Woodward.

d when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

See under Iron.

Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

A branding iron.

An iron to brand with.

A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.

Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.