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To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.

egardless. My brother was too careless of his charge. Shak. He grew careless of himself. Steele.

make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle. Prescott.

To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.

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.

perties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.

Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.

To bite into small pieces; to crunch. Steele.

A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.] If you want to sell, here is your chap. Steele.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

re; to prefer. [Colloq.] The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith. To choose sides. See under Side.

One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] Steele.

Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of…

A comedian. [Obs.] Steele.

." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.