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steely, a.|ˈstiːlɪ|
Also 6 stely.
[f. steel n.1 + -y.]
1. a. Of or belonging to steel, made or consisting of steel.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cv. v, His soule was clog'd with steely boultes of care. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 22 The steely head stucke fast still in his flesh. 1672Newton in Phil. Trans. VII. 4032 If the steely matter imployed..be more strongly reflective than this which I have used. 1726Pope Odyss. xxii. 300 Again the foe discharge the steely show'r. 1765A. Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 557 The flowers of rhetoric, when aptly fitted on, like the feathers to an arrow, give force to the steely points of argumentation. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 748 Steel, through opposing plates, the magnet draws, And steelly atoms culls from dust and straws. 1861[Lytton & Fane] Tannhäuser 58 For every sword Flash'd bare upon a sudden; and over these..the sinking sun Stream'd lurid, lighting up that steely sea.
†b. Of a blow: Given with a sword or spear.
1562Legh Armory (1597) 114 Such as with steelie strokes haue stablished stout stomackes. 1647N. Ward Simple Cobler 69 Break not with Steely blows, what oyle should melt.
2. a. Resembling steel in appearance, colour, hardness, or some other quality.
1596Edw. III, iii. v. 68 The boystrous sea Of warres deuouring gulphes and steely rocks. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. i. 114 When Vertues steely bones Lookes bleake i'th cold wind. 1824Hood Two Swans 239 When fiercely drops adown that cruel Snake—His steely scales a fearful rustling make. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 21 The hill-tops standing hard against the steely heavens.
b. Of iron: see quots.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 681 Native iron of three kinds: pure, nickeliferous, and steely. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools App. 57 The term ‘steely iron’ or ‘semi-steel’, may be applied to compounds of iron with less than 0·5 per cent. of carbon.
c. Of corn, esp. barley: Very hard and brittle.
1580Tusser Husb. (1878) 48 Wheat somtime is steelie or burnt as it growes. 1742Lond. & Country Brewer i. (ed. 4) 5 The smooth plump corn imbibing the Water more kindly, when the lean and steely Barley will not naturally. 1817Keatinge Trav. II. 30 The wheat here is of a very dry quality, nearly approaching to what our millers term steely. 1891Times 27 Oct. 12/2 It was a bit unripe and ‘steely’, having been probably harvested in too great a hurry. 1897Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc. Mar. 75 Above all it [this barley] is invariably ‘steely’, that is to say, when cut transversely it shows a yellow or flinty rather than a white and mealy surface to the fracture.
†3. Of a liquid: Having an infusion of steel. Obs.
1580Frampton Monardes' Joyf. News, Dial. Iron ii. 151 b, Aliabas..doeth say that the water that hath quenched hot steele is hot and dry... Auicen..saith that the steelie water doth resolue.
4. Of a person, his qualities, etc.:
a. Hard and cold as steel, unimpressionable, inflexible, obdurate.
1509Fisher Seven Penit. Ps. cii. Wks. (1876) 187 O tough & stely hertes, o herte more hard than flynt or other stone. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. iii. (1912) 164 That she would unarme her hart of that steely resistance against the sweet blowes of Love. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. 398 The steely forehead and flinty heart of such a libertine. 1788Johnson Lett. I. cxiv. 239 But you never mind him nor me, till time forces conviction into your steely bosom. 1865A. B. Edwards Half a Million xxx, The steely light so rarely seen there, flashed into Abel Keckwitch's eyes. 1868Farrar Seekers i. x. (1875) 115 This awful giant-shape of steely feminine cruelty.
b. In physical sense: Strong as steel.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche xv. xxxiv, Or heav'n-commanding Joshua earth become, Or steely Sampson turn to rotten Clay. 1894F. M. Crawford Ralstons (1897) 117 He's handsome, too, and straight, and steely, and formidable. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xix. 205 He was long and lithe, of a steely strength which he had never tried.
5. Comb.
a. with names of colours, as steely-blue, etc.
b. in parasynthetic formations, as steely-eyed, steely-hearted, † steely-stomached, steely-tongued adjs.
1867Morris Jason i. 381 The piled up crowd [of clouds] Began to turn from *steely blue to grey. 1878Smiles Robt. Dick iv. 27 The black or steely-blue eyes of the Celts.
1964D. F. Dowd in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 60 *Steely-eyed, if amiable, technicians. 1976Saturday Night Mar. 82/3 A haughty Trudeau is seated at a press conference giving some questioner that familiar steely-eyed look of his.
1884Bazaar 24 Dec. 675/2 The rest of the plumage is *steely grey.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxx. 12. 111 He was not so blockish or *steely harted [L. ferreum], but that hee moorned in heauinesse and sorow. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. v. 49 Even the steely-hearted murderess in the splendid tragedy..loves her aged father.
1604T. Wright Passions v. 184 A *steelie stomackt boore.
1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales II. 9 Some of the most *steely-tongued will sometimes halloo in at the window.
1903Daily Chron. 25 Nov. 6/6 The flash being *steely-white and very subdued.
6. quasi-adv. In a steely manner. Also in Comb.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 147 It is more than stony or steely hard, to say that his substance was at all Tithed. 1871G. Macdonald Songs of Winter Days 11, Wks. Fancy & Imag. III. 83 Heed not the winds that steely blow. 1922Joyce Ulysses 252 Bronze By Gold Heard The Hoofirons, Steelyringing. |