[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mettle \met"tle\, n. e. metal, used in a tropical sense in
   allusion to the temper of the metal of a sword blade. see
   metal.
   substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards
   honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; --
   usually in a good sense; as, to test a person's mettle.
   1913 webster

         a certain critical hour which shall . . . try what
         mettle his heart is made of.             --south.
   1913 webster

         gentlemen of brave mettle.               --shak.
   1913 webster

         the winged courser, like a generous horse,
         shows most true mettle when you check his course.
                                                  --pope.
   1913 webster

   to put one one's mettle, to cause or incite one to use
      one's best efforts.
      1913 webster
see also:
metal to put one one's mettle 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mettle
     n : the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk";
         "you haven't got the heart for baseball" syn: heart, nerve,
          spunk
see also:
heart nerve spunk 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

92 moby thesaurus words for "mettle":
   activity, animation, animus, aptitude, ardor, backbone, bent, bias,
   bottom, brio, briskness, cast, character, chutzpah, constitution,
   courage, dauntlessness, diathesis, disposition, eccentricity, elan,
   enthusiasm, gameness, glow, grain, grit, gusto, guts, gutsiness,
   guttiness, heart, heart of oak, idiosyncrasy, impetuosity, impetus,
   inclination, individualism, intestinal fortitude, joie de vivre,
   kidney, leaning, life, liveliness, lustiness, make, makeup,
   mental set, mettlesomeness, mind, mind-set, mold, moxie, nature,
   nerve, perkiness, pertness, pith, pluck, pluckiness, predilection,
   predisposition, preference, proclivity, propensity, resolution,
   robustness, set, slant, spirit, spiritedness, spunk, spunkiness,
   stamina, stamp, stout heart, strain, streak, stripe, temper,
   temperament, tendency, toughness, true grit, turn, turn of mind,
   twist, type, vivacity, warmth, warp, zest, zestfulness

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Definition of mettle - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
...mettle. One entry found for mettle.. Main Entry: met·tle Pronunciation ... 2 : quality of temperament or disposition <gentlemen of brave mettle ... ..
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