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p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.

Guardianship. [Obs. & R.] " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.

See Guilder.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

In a hidden manner.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

A rude, clownish youth. [Obs.] Milton.

State of being a hoiden.

Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.

Same as Hoiden.

A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.]