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arrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

hysical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphu…

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

That which attracts, as a magnet. The motion of the steel to its attrahent. Glanvill.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made hea…

Pledge; security. [Obs.] Spenser. Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

am compass, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points; -- used for drawing or describing large circles. -- Beam engine, a steam engine having a working beam to transmit power, in distinction from one which has its piston rod attached directly to the crank of th…

the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. -- During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's…

was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. Steele.

,n.A kind of neckcloth. [Obs.] A treatise against the cravat and berdash. Steele.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] Steele.

A rule steelyard. [Scot.]

he film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.