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- adjective obsolete Of or relating to the
Chalybes , an ancient people ofPontus inAsia Minor , celebrated for working iniron andsteel .
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Examples
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Yet he has mentioned Chalybean steel, of which it is not very likely that his chorus should have heard, and has made Alp the general name of a mountain, in a region where the Alps could scarcely be known:
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Chalybean tempered fteel, and frock of mail Adamantean proof}
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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