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A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the…

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or piece…

To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.

See Cast steel, under Steel.

That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.

a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle

An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced th…

Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as,…

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resist…

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to…

To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.