Part 6067

<blockquote>Jove crushed the nations with an <b>iron</b> rod. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>Firm; robust; enduring; as, an <i>iron</i> constitution</def>.

<sd>(c)</sd> <def>Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an <i>iron</i> will</def>.

<sd>(d)</sd> <def>Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious</def>. "Him death's <i>iron</i> sleep oppressed."

<i>Philips.</i>

<note>&hand; <i>Iron</i> is often used in composition, denoting <i>made of iron</i>, <i>relating to iron</i>, <i>of or with iron</i>; <i>producing iron</i>, etc.; <i>resembling</i> iron, literally or figuratively, in some of its properties or characteristics; as, <i>iron</i>-shod, <i>iron</i>-sheathed, <i>iron</i>-fisted, <i>iron</i>-framed, <i>iron</i>-handed, <i>iron</i>-hearted, <i>iron</i> foundry or <i>iron</i>-foundry.</note>

<cs><col>Iron age</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Myth.)</fld> <cd>The age following the golden, silver, and bronze ages, and characterized by a general degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary excellence. In Roman literature the <i>Iron Age<i> is commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of Rome by the Goths, <sc>A. D.</sc> 410.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Arch\'91ol.)</fld> <cd>That stage in the development of any people characterized by the use of iron implements in the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.</cd> -- <col>Iron cement</col>, <cd>a cement for joints, composed of cast-iron borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.</cd> -- <col>Iron clay</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>a yellowish clay containing a large proportion of an ore of iron.</cd> -- <col>Iron cross</col>, <cd>a Prussian order of military merit; also, the decoration of the order.</cd> -- <col>Iron crown</col>, <cd>a golden crown set with jewels, belonging originally to the Lombard kings, and indicating the dominion of Italy. It was so called from containing a circle said to have been forged from one of the nails in the cross of Christ.</cd> -- <col>Iron flint</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous variety of quartz.</cd> -- <col>Iron founder</col>, <cd>a maker of iron castings.</cd> -- <col>Iron foundry</col>, <cd>the place where iron castings are made.</cd> -- <col>Iron furnace</col>, <cd>a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a reverberatory; a bloomery.</cd> -- <col>Iron glance</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>hematite.</cd> -- <col>Iron hat</col>, <cd>a headpiece of iron or steel, shaped like a hat with a broad brim, and used as armor during the Middle Ages.</cd> -- <col>Iron horse</col>, <cd>a locomotive engine.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>Iron liquor</col></mcol>, <cd>a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant by dyers.</cd> -- <col>Iron man</col> <fld>(Cotton Manuf.)</fld>, <cd>a name for the self-acting spinning mule.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Iron mold</col> &or; <col>mould</col></mcol>, <cd>a yellow spot on cloth stained by rusty iron.</cd> -- <col>Iron ore</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>any native compound of iron from which the metal may be profitably extracted. The principal ores are magnetite, hematite, siderite, limonite, G\'94thite, turgite, and the bog and clay iron ores.</cd> -- <col>Iron pyrites</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>common pyrites, or pyrite. See <er>Pyrites</er>.</cd> -- <col>Iron sand</col>, <cd>an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.</cd> -- <col>Iron scale</col>, <cd>the thin film which on the surface of wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron, <chform>Fe3O4></chform>.</cd> -- <col>Iron works</col>, <cd>a furnace where iron is smelted, or a forge, rolling mill, or foundry, where it is made into heavy work, such as shafting, rails, cannon, merchant bar, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Iron</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Ironed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Ironing</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes used with <i>out.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.</def> "<i>Ironed</i> like a malefactor."

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To furnish or arm with iron; <as>as, to <ex>iron</ex> a wagon</as>.</def>

<-- iron out differences = resolve differences; settle a dispute. -->

<h1>Ironbark tree</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron*bark` tree`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The Australian <spn>Eucalyptus Sideroxylon</spn>, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also <altname>ironwood</altname>.</def>

<h1>Ironbound</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron*bound`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Bound as with iron; rugged; <as>as, an <ex>ironbound</ex> coast</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Rigid; unyielding; <as>as, <ex>ironbound</ex> traditions</as>.</def>

<h1>Iron-cased</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron-cased`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.</def>

<h1>Ironclad</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron*clad`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Rigorous; severe; exacting; <as>as, an <ex>ironclad</ex> oath or pledge</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Ironclad</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron*clad`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.</def>

<h1>Ironer</h1> <Xpage=788>

<hw>I"ron*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, irons.</def>