mettled

adj

Etymology

From mettle + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Having mettle

    Having mettle; pithy, spirited

    • The mettled ſteeds, when from their noſtrils flows / The ſcorching fire, that in their entrails glows.
    • She looked, and saw one of the most graceful cavaliers that ever reined in a mettled horse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mettled. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA