steel boy (stelboi)

[Prob. steel. Coutrages steel-clad (stēl'klad), a. Clothed in armor of steel ent, a. [ The stelene brond. Layamon, 1. 7634. steel-engraving (stēl'en-grāving), n. 1. The art of engraving on steel plates for the purpose of producing prints or impre ions in ink on paper and other substances.-2. The design engraved on the steel plate.-3. An impre ion or print taken from the engraved steel plate. steel-finch (stēl'finch), n. A book-name of the small finch-like birds of the genus Hypochæra. steelhead (stēl'hed), n. 1. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so called from the steel blue of the head, or perhaps for the same reason that it is called hardhead, hickory - head, and tough head. See cut under Erismatura. [Maryland.]-2. The rainbow-trout, Salmo irideus. See cut under rainbow - trout. [Local, U. S.] steel-headt (stēl'hed), a. Tipped with steel. Spenser, F. Q., III. ix. 16. steel if i cation (stē li-fi-kā'shon), n. The proce of converting iron into steel. Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXV. 304. steelify (stē'li-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. steelified, ppr. steelifying. [