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Puddled steel. [U. S. ]

See under Shear.

See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, etc.

To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.

Rolled steel in structural shapes.

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

fit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or…

The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]

High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]

The office or duty of a trustee.

A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.

To disarm; to soften. Richardson.

A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.

Same as Tungsten steel.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton . -- A writ of account (Law), a writ which the p…

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.