malleable (maleabl)

[Early mod. E. mal liable, by beating, as gold, This Blow at Sea was so much greater than that at Land that, where that made him only doubt, this made him despair, at least made him malleable , and fit to be wrought upon by Composition. Baker , Chronicles, p. 78. Mark the effect produced on our councils by continued insolence and inveterate hostility: we grow more malleable under their blows. Burke , A Regicide Peace, iii. Malleable bronze. See bronze . - Malleable iron castings. See iron. malleablene (mal'e-a-bl-nes),n. Malleability. malleate (mal'ē-āt), v . t .; pret. and pp. malle ated , ppr. malleating . [ mall eat us , pp. of malleare , beat with a hammer, mall, malleus , a hammer: see mall1 , n. Cf. mall i, v.] To hammer; form into a plate or leaf by beating.