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Sclerosis :: Sclerosis (n.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.

Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..

Callosity :: Callosity (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction..

Hardening :: Hardening (n.) That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel..

Comb :: Comb (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat..

Season :: Season (v. t.) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber..

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

Induration :: Induration (n.) The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard..

Baking :: Baking (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold..

Obduration :: Obduration (n.) A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.

Casehardening :: Casehardening (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.

Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) A hardening into a stone substance.

Setting :: Setting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current..

Hardening :: Hardening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harde.

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..

Sclerosis :: Sclerosis (n.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue..

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