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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Malleable \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr LL malleare
to hammer. See {Malleate}.]
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer,
or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
{Malleable iron}, iron that is capable of extension or of
being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See
under {Iron}.
{Malleable iron castings}, articles cast from pig iron and
made malleable by heating then for several days in the
presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives
the cast iron of some of its carbon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
malleable
adj 1: easily influenced [syn: {ductile}]
2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out "ductile
copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made
of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: {ductile}, {pliable},
{pliant}, {tensile}, {tractile}]
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