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Hurden :: Hurden (n.) A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.

Horny :: Horny (superl.) Hard; callous.

Rusk :: Rusk (n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores..

Hardly :: Hardly (adv.) Confidently; hardily.

Press :: Press (v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron..

Bullhead :: Bullhead (n.) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb..

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Biscuit :: Biscuit (n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit..

Obtected :: Obtected (a.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files..

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

Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing..

Earthen-hearted :: Earthen-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.

-art :: -art () The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard..

Sclerometer :: Sclerometer (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

Carbon :: Carbon (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or t

Obdurate :: Obdurate (a.) Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.

Hard-fought :: Hard-fought (a. Vigorously) contested; as, a hard-fought battle..

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