Associations to the word «Tempering»

Wiktionary

TEMPERING, verb. Present participle of temper
TEMPERING, noun. The act by which something is tempered.

Dictionary definition

TEMPERING, noun. Hardening something by heat treatment.
TEMPERING, adjective. Moderating by making more temperate.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope