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Sesame. [Sometimes written til.] Teel oil, sesame oil.

The seed of sesame.

Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

Steel produced by the basic process.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. [Obs.]

A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be used for guns.

Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

See Cast steel, under Steel.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

Same as Chromium steel, under Steel.

An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novæ-Hollandiæ); -- so called from its note.

Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes.

See Damask steel, under Damask.

of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Somewhat genteel.

In a genteel manner.

The quality of being genteel.

Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.