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ood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

trument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.

A sharp or steep declivity or slope. [Colloq.] To get the hang of, to learn the method or arrangement of; hence, to become accustomed to. [Colloq.]

A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.] Gilbert White.

y; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.

A California salmon; the steelhead.

dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array. Harnessed in rugged steel. Rowe. A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear. Chaucer.

A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a…

To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.] His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

To hold, regard, or esteem. Of them shall I be had in honor. 2 Sam. vi. 22.

Steep; precipitous. [Poetic] Like a tower upon a headlong rock. Byron.

The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.

The man at the helm; a steersman.

A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium. Steele.

stract question. Coleridge. Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.

Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high- mettled steed.

In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. Spenser.