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Caseharden :: Caseharden (v. t.) To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Crust :: Crust (n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard..

Press :: Press (v.) To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race..

Appurtenance :: Appurtenance (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land..

Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

Node :: Node (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint..

Hardship :: Hardship (n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc..

Freeze :: Freeze (v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Candleberry Tree :: Candleberry tree () A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry..

Corneouss :: Corneouss (a.) Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

Occrustate :: Occrustate (v. t.) To incrust; to harden.

Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..

Lilly-pilly :: Lilly-pilly (n.) An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained..

Stony :: Stony (superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust..

Blob :: Blob (n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

Rub :: Rub (n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch..

Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..

Callose :: Callose (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

Boncilate :: Boncilate (n.) A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc..

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