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noun

Annealing n.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

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Etymology of 'Annealing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Annealing" Quotes from Famous Books

... and I've been thinking a great deal about Olga. I fancy I have even been envying her a little. She's of that annealing softness which can rivet and hold a family together. I've even been trying to solace myself with the claim that she's a trifle ox-like in her make-up. But that is not being just to Olga. She makes a perfect wife. She is ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... in his time, and that more than once, it seems monstrous that a boy should make so much of it; but then to a boy six months is a little lifetime, and for six months I had passed through that great annealing fire of drill which stamps and moulds the French people to-day, putting too much knowledge and bitterness into their eyes, but a great determination into their gestures and a trained tenacity into the methods ...

— Hills and the Sea • H. Belloc

Words linked to "Annealing" : tempering, hardening