steeled, ppl. a.
(stiːld)
[f. steel n.1 or v. + -ed.]
1. Made of steel, or with the outer surface, edge or point of steel.
| a 900 Cynewulf's Christ 679 Sum mæᵹ styled sweord wæpen ᵹewyrcan. a 1225 Juliana 58 Ha bigon to breoken al as þat istelet irn to limede hire. c 1350 Lybeaus Disc. (Kaluza) 976 Wiþ coronals stif and stelde, Eiþer smitte oþer in þe scheld, Wiþ well greet envie. ? a 1400 in Rel. Ant. I. 240 Stark strokes thei stryken on a stelyd stokke. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. xi. 79 Al instrumentis of pleuch graith, irnit or stelit. 1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 85 Giue me my steeled Coat. Ile fight for France. 1639 Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 35 He seeks to end his dayes..another time by poison, againe by some steeled weapon. 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. E 2 b, This sort will wear a new steel'd pick off in three or four times Sharping. 1751 C. Labelye Piers Westm. Bridge 4 Sharp and well steel'd Drills. 1841 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 29/1 By the use of steeled tires these evils are henceforth to be avoided. |
b. (See steel v. 1 c.)
| 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Apr. 3/1 Practically all the artist's proofs which find their way into the market are taken from these ‘steeled’ plates. |
2. Of a man, army, etc.: Armed or protected with steel.
| 1596 Edw. III, iii. iii. 219 Then thus our steelde Battailes shall be rainged. 1672 Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. Granada i. i, On their steel'd Heads their demy-Lances wore Small Pennons which their Ladies Colours bore. 1819 Keats Otho i. iii. 67 Amid a camp whose steeled swarms I dar'd But yesterday. |
3. Of wine, etc.: Containing an infusion of steel.
| 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 444 Being drunk in steeled or red wine. 1694 Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 594/2 The Chalybeated or Steeled Syrup. |
4. Wearing a ‘steel’ for sharpening knives. nonce-use.
| 1827 Hone Every-day Bk. II. 132 A ‘steeled’ butcher..carries the flag. |
5. Of a person, his attributes, etc.: Hardened like steel, insensible to impression, inflexible.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, ii. ii. 36 So seruice shall with steeled sinewes toyle. 1603 ― Meas. for M. iv. ii. 90 This is a gentle Prouost, sildome when The steeled Gaoler is the friend of men. 1624 A. H. in J. Davies' (Heref.) Scourge Paper-Persecutors i. 5 What steeled patience could behold those Dawes Præuaricate the Muses sacred Lawes. 1713 Tickell Prosp. Peace 133 Let the steel'd Turk be deaf to Matrons Cries. 1810 Shelley Zastrozzi ii. Pr. Wks. 1888 I. 11 His steeled soul persisted in its scheme. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. v, This last specimen of Mrs. Felix Lorraine was somewhat too much even for the steeled nerves of Vivian Grey. |