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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Malleable \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare
     to hammer. See {Malleate}.]
     Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer,
     or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
  
     {Malleable iron}, iron that is capable of extension or of
        being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See
        under {Iron}.
  
     {Malleable iron castings}, articles cast from pig iron and
        made malleable by heating then for several days in the
        presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives
        the cast iron of some of its carbon.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  malleable
       adj 1: easily influenced [syn: {ductile}]
       2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
          copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
          leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made
          of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: {ductile}, {pliable},
           {pliant}, {tensile}, {tractile}]

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