Available Definitions:
1) n. - The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel , v.
2) n. - An instrument or implement made of steel
3) n. - A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
4) n. - An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
5) n. - A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
6) n. - Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
7) n. - A chalybeate medicine.
8) n. - To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
9) n. - To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
10) n. - Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
11) n. - To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.