chalybean

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A bird of Paradise of the genus Chalybæus or Manucodia; a manucode.
• Pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor famed as workers in iron and steel; similar to the work or products of the Chalybes: as, “Chalybean temper'd steel,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.
• adjective obsolete Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel.