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Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
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Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like.
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Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
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Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.
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Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
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A lively or mettlesome fellow.
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A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
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Dull-spirited.
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Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
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Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
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Inborn mettle or courage; one's own temper.
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An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.
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Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.
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Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
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Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit.
v. i.
To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
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An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.
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