单词 | nealing |
释义 | nealingn. Now rare. The action of neal v.; spec. the process of tempering. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing hardening?c1425 nealing1612 tempering1661 annealing1662 seasoning1731 lighting1831 anneal1868 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xv. 107 A furnace..for boyling, nealing, and backing of all kinde of Rawe-materials or Rawe-matters. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 284 By the working, hammering, often nealing and blaunching, which alwaies in base moneys is verie great. 1677 Edinb. City Arch. (McLeod's bundle) No. 39 To forge all mears scubitts and other tooles neidfull for the neilling house. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6203/3 That temperate Heat, that prevents the Knealing of the Combs or Burning of the Wooll. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Nealing of Steel, is the heating it in the Fire to a blood-red Heat; and then..letting it cool gently of itself. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. ii. 71 Heat soon restores its ductility, which is termed nealing or annealing. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 47 Annealing or Nealing, a process by which glass is rendered less frangible, and metals..are again rendered malleable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † nealingadj. Obsolete. Of fire, heat, etc.: that neals; spec. that tempers. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [adjective] > hardening, tempering, or annealing nealing1644 tempering1817 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. viii. 55 To lett it [sc. glass] coole by degrees in such relentinges of fire as they call their nealing heates. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 169 To deprive it of its spring it needs the violent agitation of a nealing fire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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