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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STEELED, pp. Pointed or edged with steel; hardened; made insensible.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Steel Steel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Steeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Steeling.] [AS. stlan: cf. Icel. st[ae]la. See Steel, n.] 1. To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax. 2. To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate. Lies well steeled with weighty arguments. --Shak. O God of battles! steel my soldier's 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.

Moby Thesaurus

Philistine, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, inured, lapidified, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened, thick-skinned, toughened, vitrified