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 Steel v. t. [imp. & p. p. Steeled p. pr. & vb. n. Steeling.]
 1. To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
 2. 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?   --Addison.
 3. Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
 These waters, steeled
 By breezeless air to smoothest polish.   --Wordsworth.
 4. Elec. To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
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