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

Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd.

Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. Tomlinson.

business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a

To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

lain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

imb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric ox…

Steep. [Prov. Eng.]

, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

A steep place endangering the neck.

ver the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott.

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.