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Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.

See under Open.

To write or publish pamphlets. By pamphleteering we shall not win. C. Kingsley.

See Pattee.

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.

s arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross. [Written also paté, patee.]

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.

See Picotee.

A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.

ecially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]

See Poteen.

One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice. Ayliffe.

The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate. Macaulay.

Cruising in a privateer.

An officer or seaman of a privateer.