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Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

Foolhardiness :: Foolhardiness (n.) Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.

Sclerogenous :: Sclerogenous (a.) Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.

Nut :: Nut (n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel..

Stone :: Stone (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone..

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath..

Hardening :: Hardening (n.) Making hard or harder.

Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings..

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..

Wampee :: Wampee (n.) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food..

Incrustation :: Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler..

Redhead :: Redhead (n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard..

Poachard :: Poachard (n.) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon..

Velar :: Velar (a.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q..

Junk :: Junk (n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest.

Smee :: Smee (n.) The poachard.

Hard :: Hard (adv.) So as to raise difficulties.

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