Crossword clues for steeled
steeled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steel \Steel\ (st[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Steeled (st[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Steeling.] [AS. st[=y]lan: cf. Icel. st[ae]la. See Steel, n.]
To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
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Fig.: To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
Lies well steeled with weighty arguments.
--Shak.O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts.
--Shak.Why will you fight against so sweet a passion, And steel your heart to such a world of charms?
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Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
These waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish.
--Wordsworth. (Elec.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: steel)
Usage examples of "steeled".
Unlike not a few of his peers, Don Guillermo did not really like witnessing whippings or maimings or torture, but recognized and accepted that such were the only proven ways to maintain discipline among the commoner sorts and the slaves, so he steeled himself and observed those punishments he had ordered as sternly and blankfacedly as a hidalgo knight should.
She steeled herself, and then glanced into the interior, trying not to look at the little man in the chair.
He steeled himself also to the discovery of the corpses of Harry and pretty blonde little Vicky.