steelyadj.

Brit.

/ˈstiːli/, U.S.

/ˈstili/

Forms: Also 1500s stely.

Etymology: < steel n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Of or belonging to steel, made or consisting of steel.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [adjective]

steely1590

steel1601

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [adjective] > made of steel

steeledOE

steelena1175

steelc1400

steely1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L2 The steely head stuck fast still in his flesh.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cv. 36 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 163 His soule was clog'd with steely boultes of care.

1672 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4032 If the steely matter imployed..be more strongly reflective than this which I have used.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 300 Again the foe discharge the steely show'r.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 151 The flowers of rhetoric when aptly fitted on, like the feathers to an arrow, give force to the steely points of argumentation.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 63 Steel, through opposing plates the Magnet draws, And steelly atoms culls from dust and straws.

1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > [adjective]

foining1523

steely1562

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 114 Such as with steelie strokes haue stablished stout stomackes.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 66 Break not with Steely blowes, what oyle should melt.

a. Resembling steel in appearance, colour, hardness, or some other quality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very

iron-hardOE

bone?a1300

adamantinea1382

stony?1523

adamant1535

steel-harda1560

buff-hard1589

steely1596

diamantine1605

steela1607

rocked1610

Brazil1635

adamantean1671

osseousa1682

iron1708

ferreous1774

rock-likea1793

cast iron1886

bone-hard1924

the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > iron or steel grey

iron-greyeOE

irona1398

steel-greya1560

steely1596

steel1851

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. G2 The boystrous sea, Of warres deuouring gulphes and steely rocks.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 102 When Vertues steely bones Lookes bleake i'th cold wind.

1824 T. Hood Two Swans 239 When fiercely drops adown that cruel Snake—His steely scales a fearful rustling make.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 21 The hill-tops standing hard against the steely heavens.

b. Of iron: see quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [adjective] > native iron

steely1839

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 681 Native iron of three kinds: pure, nickeliferous, and steely.

1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of cereal plants > hard and brittle

steely1580

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 20^v Wheat somtime is steelie, or burnt as it growes.

1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. ii. 8 The smooth plump Corn imbibing the water more kindly, when the lean and steely Barley will not so naturally.

1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 30 The wheat here is of a very dry quality, nearly approaching to what our millers term steely.

1891 Times 27 Oct. 12/2 It was a bit unripe and ‘steely’, having been probably harvested in too great a hurry.

1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [adjective] > specific

steely1580

stibiate1625

stibiated1828

1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 151^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted

hard hearteOE

steelena1000

hardOE

hard-heartedc1225

stony?c1230

yhert1340

dure1412

hardedc1425

induratec1425

stonishc1450

hardenedc1480

steely1508

flinty1536

endured1540

stiff-stomached1540

heartless1556

indured1558

flint-hearted1560

iron1561

marble1565

stone-hearted?1569

stony-hearted1569

iron-hearted1570

steel-hearted1571

rocky?1578

brawned1582

flinted1582

padded1583

obdure?1590

brawny1596

flintful1596

flint-heart1596

steeled1600

cauterized1603

indurated1604

flinty-hearted1629

ahenean1630

dedolent1633

brawny-hearteda1639

hard-grained1643

callous1647

upsitten1682

seared1684

petrified1720

calloused1746

coreless1813

pebble-hearted1816

hard-shelled1848

hard-plucked1857

steel trap1921

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > rigidly or relentlessly

grima1000

steely1508

unbowable1537

inexorable1553

unrelenting1590

unrelentless1606

rigid1610

implacable1611

unrelentable1611

unsoftened1645

unconniving1671

ramrod1850

unexcusing1853

unsoftening1857

tough1905

1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. rr.vi O tough & stely hertes, o hertes more hard than flynte or other stone.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iii. sig. P7^v That she would vnarme her hart of that steely resistance against the sweet blowes of Loue.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. Concl. 267 The steely forehead, and flinty heart, of such a Libertine.

1775 S. Johnson Let. 19 June (1992) II. 229 But you never mind him nor me, till time forces conviction into your steely bosom.

1865 A. B. Edwards Half a Million I. xxx. 261 The steely light so rarely seen there, flashed into Abel Keckwitch's eyes.

1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. x. 115 This awful giant-shape of steely feminine cruelty.

b. In physical sense: Strong as steel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > very strong

strongfula1400

steel-stronga1560

Herculean1596

steely1648

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiv. xxx. 253 Or Josua's Dust with his own Grave agree, Or steely Samson turn to rotten Clay.

1894 F. 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. quasi-adv. In a steely manner. Also in combinations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adverb] > rigidly or relentlessly

inexorably1610

rigidly1610

steely1621

irrelentlessly1624

implacably1631

relentlessly1737

remorselessly1845

steelily1867

grimly1881

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 147 It is more than stony or steely hard, to say that his substance was at all Tithed.

1871 G. MacDonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination III. 83 Heed not the winds that steely blow.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 245 Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.

Compounds

C1. With names of colours.

steely-blue n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > metallic blue

steel-bluea1560

iron blue1697

steely-blue1867

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason i. 14 The piled up crowd [of clouds] Began to turn from steely blue to grey.

1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick iv. 27 The black or steely-blue eyes of the Celts.

steely-grey n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > iron or steel grey

greyOE

iron-greyOE

iron1878

steel1881

steely-grey1884

1884 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 24 Dec. 675/2 The rest of the plumage is steely grey.

steely-white n.

ΚΠ

1903 Daily Chron. 25 Nov. 6/6 The flash being steely-white and very subdued.

C2. In parasynthetic formations.

steely-eyed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having

goggle-eyedc1384

well-eyed1483

pink-eyed1519

hollow-eyeda1529

small-eyed1555

great-eyed1558

bird-eyed1564

out-eyed1570

large-eyed1575

full-eyed1581

bright-eyed1590

wall-eyed1590

beetle-eyed1594

fire-eyed?1594

young-eyed1600

open-eyed1601

soft-eyed1606

narrow-eyed1607

broad-eyed?1611

saucer-eyed1612

ox-eyed1621

pig-eyed1655

glare-eyed1683

pit-eyed1696

dove-eyed1717

laughing-eyed1784

almond1786

wide-eyed1789

moon-eyed1790

big-eyed1792

gooseberry-eyed1796

red-eyed1800

unsealed1800

screw-eyed1810

starry-eyed1818

pinkie-eyed1824

pop-eyed1830

bead-eyed1835

fishy-eyed1836

almond-eyed1849

boopic1854

sharp-set1865

bug-eyed1872

beady-eyed1873

bias-eyed1877

blank-eyed1881

gape-eyed1889

glass-eyed1889

stone-eyed1890

pie-eyed1900

slitty-eyed1908

steely-eyed1964

megalopic1985

1964 D. F. Dowd in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 60 Steely-eyed, if amiable, technicians.

1976 Saturday Night Mar. 82/3 A haughty Trudeau is seated at a press conference giving some questioner that familiar steely-eyed look of his.

steely-hearted adj.

ΚΠ

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxx. 12) i. f. 111 He was not so blockish or steely harted [L. ferreum], but that hee moorned in heauinesse and sorow.

1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth v. 49 Even the steely-hearted murderess in the splendid tragedy..loves her aged father.

† steely-stomached adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 184 A steelie stomackt boore.

steely-tongued adj.

ΚΠ

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xx. 22 Some of the most steely-tongued will sometimes halloo in at the window.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	steely
释义	steelyadj. Brit. /ˈstiːli/, U.S. /ˈstili/ Forms: Also 1500s stely. Etymology: < steel n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Of or belonging to steel, made or consisting of steel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [adjective] steely1590 steel1601 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [adjective] > made of steel steeledOE steelena1175 steelc1400 steely1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L2 The steely head stuck fast still in his flesh. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cv. 36 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 163 His soule was clog'd with steely boultes of care. 1672 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4032 If the steely matter imployed..be more strongly reflective than this which I have used. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 300 Again the foe discharge the steely show'r. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 151 The flowers of rhetoric when aptly fitted on, like the feathers to an arrow, give force to the steely points of argumentation. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 63 Steel, through opposing plates the Magnet draws, And steelly atoms culls from dust and straws. 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton 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. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > [adjective] foining1523 steely1562 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 114 Such as with steelie strokes haue stablished stout stomackes. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 66 Break not with Steely blowes, what oyle should melt. 2. a. Resembling steel in appearance, colour, hardness, or some other quality. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very iron-hardOE bone?a1300 adamantinea1382 stony?1523 adamant1535 steel-harda1560 buff-hard1589 steely1596 diamantine1605 steela1607 rocked1610 Brazil1635 adamantean1671 osseousa1682 iron1708 ferreous1774 rock-likea1793 cast iron1886 bone-hard1924 the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > iron or steel grey iron-greyeOE irona1398 steel-greya1560 steely1596 steel1851 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. G2 The boystrous sea, Of warres deuouring gulphes and steely rocks. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 102 When Vertues steely bones Lookes bleake i'th cold wind. View more context for this quotation 1824 T. Hood Two Swans 239 When fiercely drops adown that cruel Snake—His steely scales a fearful rustling make. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 21 The hill-tops standing hard against the steely heavens. b. Of iron: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [adjective] > native iron steely1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 681 Native iron of three kinds: pure, nickeliferous, and steely. 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of cereal plants > hard and brittle steely1580 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 20^v Wheat somtime is steelie, or burnt as it growes. 1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. ii. 8 The smooth plump Corn imbibing the water more kindly, when the lean and steely Barley will not so naturally. 1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 30 The wheat here is of a very dry quality, nearly approaching to what our millers term steely. 1891 Times 27 Oct. 12/2 It was a bit unripe and ‘steely’, having been probably harvested in too great a hurry. 1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [adjective] > specific steely1580 stibiate1625 stibiated1828 1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 151^v 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > rigidly or relentlessly grima1000 steely1508 unbowable1537 inexorable1553 unrelenting1590 unrelentless1606 rigid1610 implacable1611 unrelentable1611 unsoftened1645 unconniving1671 ramrod1850 unexcusing1853 unsoftening1857 tough1905 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. rr.vi O tough & stely hertes, o hertes more hard than flynte or other stone. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iii. sig. P7^v That she would vnarme her hart of that steely resistance against the sweet blowes of Loue. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. Concl. 267 The steely forehead, and flinty heart, of such a Libertine. 1775 S. Johnson Let. 19 June (1992) II. 229 But you never mind him nor me, till time forces conviction into your steely bosom. 1865 A. B. Edwards Half a Million I. xxx. 261 The steely light so rarely seen there, flashed into Abel Keckwitch's eyes. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. x. 115 This awful giant-shape of steely feminine cruelty. b. In physical sense: Strong as steel. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > very strong strongfula1400 steel-stronga1560 Herculean1596 steely1648 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiv. xxx. 253 Or Josua's Dust with his own Grave agree, Or steely Samson turn to rotten Clay. 1894 F. 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. quasi-adv. In a steely manner. Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adverb] > rigidly or relentlessly inexorably1610 rigidly1610 steely1621 irrelentlessly1624 implacably1631 relentlessly1737 remorselessly1845 steelily1867 grimly1881 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 147 It is more than stony or steely hard, to say that his substance was at all Tithed. 1871 G. MacDonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination III. 83 Heed not the winds that steely blow. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 245 Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing. Compounds C1. With names of colours. steely-blue n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > metallic blue steel-bluea1560 iron blue1697 steely-blue1867 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason i. 14 The piled up crowd [of clouds] Began to turn from steely blue to grey. 1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick iv. 27 The black or steely-blue eyes of the Celts. steely-grey n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > iron or steel grey greyOE iron-greyOE iron1878 steel1881 steely-grey1884 1884 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 24 Dec. 675/2 The rest of the plumage is steely grey. steely-white n. ΚΠ 1903 Daily Chron. 25 Nov. 6/6 The flash being steely-white and very subdued. C2. In parasynthetic formations. steely-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having goggle-eyedc1384 well-eyed1483 pink-eyed1519 hollow-eyeda1529 small-eyed1555 great-eyed1558 bird-eyed1564 out-eyed1570 large-eyed1575 full-eyed1581 bright-eyed1590 wall-eyed1590 beetle-eyed1594 fire-eyed?1594 young-eyed1600 open-eyed1601 soft-eyed1606 narrow-eyed1607 broad-eyed?1611 saucer-eyed1612 ox-eyed1621 pig-eyed1655 glare-eyed1683 pit-eyed1696 dove-eyed1717 laughing-eyed1784 almond1786 wide-eyed1789 moon-eyed1790 big-eyed1792 gooseberry-eyed1796 red-eyed1800 unsealed1800 screw-eyed1810 starry-eyed1818 pinkie-eyed1824 pop-eyed1830 bead-eyed1835 fishy-eyed1836 almond-eyed1849 boopic1854 sharp-set1865 bug-eyed1872 beady-eyed1873 bias-eyed1877 blank-eyed1881 gape-eyed1889 glass-eyed1889 stone-eyed1890 pie-eyed1900 slitty-eyed1908 steely-eyed1964 megalopic1985 1964 D. F. Dowd in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 60 Steely-eyed, if amiable, technicians. 1976 Saturday Night Mar. 82/3 A haughty Trudeau is seated at a press conference giving some questioner that familiar steely-eyed look of his. steely-hearted adj. ΚΠ 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxx. 12) i. f. 111 He was not so blockish or steely harted [L. ferreum], but that hee moorned in heauinesse and sorow. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth v. 49 Even the steely-hearted murderess in the splendid tragedy..loves her aged father. † steely-stomached adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 184 A steelie stomackt boore. steely-tongued adj. ΚΠ 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xx. 22 Some of the most steely-tongued will sometimes halloo in at the window. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1508
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