tempering
drawing a temper

On the other hand, there are grounds for the tempering of grief.

I didn't like to cook on the end of my blade; it was bad for the tempering.

Differential tempering can be made more difficult by the shape of the blade.

Thanks to that cruel tempering, he could bend without breaking.

You need some shaping, some tempering, and that's for certain.

Their own blood would go into the tempering.

"Yet mere heat and tempering does not produce the water steel.

The clash of steel, probably closer than they anticipated, would be their final tempering.

However, unlike normal tempering, the tool is not heated evenly.

The tempering of incoming fresh air is done by a heat or energy recovery core.

The Fremen instincts he had set to work in her did their usual tempering.

A familiar feature of learning is a tempering of views.

The hardest thing of all in making a true master blade is the tempering, and you guys obviously have that down.

Especially now that Damia had gone through such a tempering and maturing crisis.

And so is the gradual tempering of those hopes and predictions over time.

However differential tempering does not alter the blade's shape.

These provided privacy as well as a leafy tempering of the summer sun.

The pattern is not unlike the optimism many students feel in September when the school year starts, with a tempering of expectations coming later.

The slow erosion and certain tempering of decades and centuries have seen to that.

After the tempering, the notes have to be softened and tuned (initial tuning).

"I'm sure her Master will see to her tempering."

"The challenge is in perfect tempering," she said.

One sign was the tempering of Hezbollah rhetoric.

It would melt from the heat, he advised, the workmanship too fine to survive the tempering.

Well muscled, their father's firm heritage, I am happy to say, with a tempering of their mother's looks.