Word Meanings - DAMASKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins. Howell
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- STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - HOWELL
The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - SWORDLESS
Destitute of a sword. - SWORDSMANSHIP
The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper. - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. - SWORDING
Slashing with a sword. Tennyson. - SWORDED
Girded with a sword. Milton. - SWORDSMAN
1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer. - DAMASK
Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. 1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different - STEELY
1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay. 2. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm - SWORDFISH
A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker , a remora which attaches itself to the swordfish. (more info) A very large oceanic fish , the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones - STEELYARD
A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating - TOLEDO
A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons. - DAMASKIN
A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins. Howell - STEELER
One who points, edges, or covers with steel. - SWORD
One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer - DAMASKEEN; DAMASKEN
To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening - BLADESMITH
A sword cutler. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - BROADSWORD
A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott. - LOW STEEL
See LOW - NICKEL STEEL
A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - BESSEMER STEEL
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 - DAMASCUS STEEL
See DAMASK - SOFT STEEL
Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.