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mettled, a.|ˈmɛt(ə)ld|
Also 6 mettald, 6–7 metled, 7 metal'd, metteld, 7–8 metall'd.
[f. mettle n. + -ed2.]
1. Full of mettle; mettlesome. Also in comb. high-mettled, etc.
a. of horses, etc.
1615Latham Falconry (1633) 21 Such great metteld and selfe wilde hawkes. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 267 He shall wonder that there is such a mettled fervencie in horses, as [etc.]. a1764R. Lloyd Poetry Prof. 22 Fine-bred things of mettled blood, Pick'd from Apollo's royal stud. 1870Edgar Runnymede xiv, Their mettled palfreys.
b. of persons.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 35 What great imployment with stirring and mettald spirits. 1668G. Etherege She wou'd if she cou'd iii. iii, They are mettled girls, I warrant them, Sir Joslin, let 'em be what they will. 1672Earl of Orrery Tryphon Prol., As metled School-boys set to cuff. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. xii. 152 The sex love us mettled fellows at their hearts.
c. of actions.
1633B. Jonson Love's Welcome, Welbeck, Such a light and metall'd Dance Saw you never yet in France. 1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 74 (1713) II. 206 'Twas a mettled Speech, seasonable and successful. 1701Cibber Love Makes Man v. iii, I find thou hast done a mettled Thing. 1768Woman of Honor II. 54 Not having a heart for such a mettled enterprize.
†2. Half-drunk. Obs. rare—0.
1678Littleton Eng.-Lat. Dict., Mettled or fudled, madulsa, semiebrius.
3. With prefixed word: Having a ‘mettle’ or temperament of a specified kind.
1598Heauie metled [see heavy a.1 31]. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. ii. xii. 55 Where their minds are enraged and heightned by the sound of the Drum and the Trumpet, (which are able to put but an ordinarily-metall'd man out of his wits). 1828J. S. Sebright Hawking 52 The goshawk is so slack mettled, that it requires the most skilful management to make him fly at all. |
