[f. ALLOY v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of reducing or modifying a metal by mixing a portion of an inferior ingredient.
1875. [See ALLOY v. 1].
2. The combining of metals.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 32. The alloying of given quantities of two metals of known densities.
1858. Gladstone, Homer, III. 499. The fusion or alloying of metals.
