steel

An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

Ocearium stæli.

Accearium steeli.

Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

For heom ne may halter ne bridel Bringe from here wode wyse, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire.

For braue Macbeth (well hee deſerues that Name) Diſdayning Fortune, with his brandiſht Steele, Which ſmoak'd with bloody execution (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his paſſage.

Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder wel to brennen one ðis wunder.

The Cock falling with its wonted violence upon the Steel.

Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

Þai gun hem boþe armi In iren and stiel þat tide.

In compleate steele.

Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.

When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones...

Made of steel.

Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.

The tyrant custome...Hath made the flinty and steele Cooch of warre, My thrice driuen bed of downe.

Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.

Wher neuer cessing soyle doth steelebright stuff send out from mines.

Prison my heart in thy steele bosomes warde.

Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

[T]he discoverie of the yron and steele mines.

From their new dungeons at Chantilly, Aristocrats may hear the rustle of our new steel furnace there.

Containing steel.

To mix some Sugar of steel, or steel wine with the first glass.

I have found a singular Virtue in Steel drops, præpared after my Mode.

Engraved on steel.

The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book.

To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

Hure þolien ant a beoren hare unirude duntes wið mealles istelet.

When God...draws aside his curtain, and shows his arsenal and his armory, full of arrows steeled with wrath.

To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

Nay, a Crystall glasse will not show a man his face, except it be steeled, except it be darkned on the backside.

To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

She drunk her drink steeled, with which she was cured.

To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

My large dry-point,...called Two Stumps of Driftwood, gave 1000 copies (after being steeled) without perceptible wearing.

To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.