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With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.

A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.

Isotonic system (Mus.), a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.

Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.

e ground], they do not plow it again till April. Mortimer. The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age. J. C. Shairp.

To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.

To be tempered by heat. [R.] Bacon.

easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.

Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.

Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

Snappish; cross; ill-tempered. [Prov. Eng.]

iolent, or to render of an opposite quality. He bore his great commision in his look, But tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. Dryden.

bs.] "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit. Spenser.

d consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

t; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. Bancroft. Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Otway. But thy fire Shall be more tempered,…

Capable of being tempered. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.

Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. Barrow. She was a vixen when she went to school. Shak.

Ill-tempered. [Obs.] Chaucer.