<span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> Putting forth <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> best efforts....
almost, or <span class="searchmatch">Mettle</span>; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that bragge of their mines, fertile England cannot compare with them. mettlesome <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> a quality...
From <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> + -ed. <span class="searchmatch">mettled</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">mettled</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">mettled</span>) (archaic) Having <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span>; pithy, spirited a. 1720 (date written), Joseph...
capable of, someone's true <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> Synonym: ce qu’on a dans le ventre montrer de quel bois <span class="searchmatch">on</span> se chauffe ― to show <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> Chiefly used with the verbs...
venturousness (uncountable) The quality or state of being venturous; <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span>; <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> willingness to undertake potentially hazardous endeavours. daring venturesomeness...
participle of faghair (“fire, heat; temper; fire, incite, stimulate; put <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">one’s</span> <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span>”) Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard...
necessary to live to be tried in combat, to be tested as a warrior, to prove <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> or might عِظْ • (ʕiẓ) (form I) /ʕiðˤ/ second-person masculine singular...
delicate way, and <span class="searchmatch">one</span> of the little <span class="searchmatch">ones</span> had been out too late at a hen-roost, and had caught a very bad cold. 1903, James Lane Allen, The <span class="searchmatch">Mettle</span> of the Pasture...
Falsely to take away a life true made, As to put <span class="searchmatch">mettle</span> in restrained meanes To make a false <span class="searchmatch">one</span>. low-key understated held back, limited, kept in check...
state of being proud. A sense of <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> work, <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> family, etc). He swelled with...