Chalybean
English edit
Adjective edit
Chalybean (comparative more Chalybean, superlative most Chalybean)
- (historical) Of or relating to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.
Noun edit
Chalybean (plural Chalybeans)
- (historical) A member of this ancient group of people.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Chalybean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)