Word Meanings - 11. - Book Publishers vocabulary database

12. A bond "Thy oath and band." Shak. 13. Pledge; security. Spenser. Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

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• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• STEELY
  1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay. 2. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• STEELYARD
  A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating
• ENDLESS
  1. Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor. 2. Infinite; excessive; unlimited. Shak. 3.
• RUNNING
  Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• STEELER
  One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
• ENDLESSLY
  In an endless manner.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• ENDLESSNESS
  The quality of being endless; perpetuity.
• WHEELSWARF
  See SWARF
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• LOW STEEL
  See LOW
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• NICKEL STEEL
  A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• BESSEMER STEEL
  Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• DAMASCUS STEEL
  See DAMASK