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See Cundurango.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

Trousers or breeches of corduroy. Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay. -- En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.

In an endurable manner.

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15.

Endurance. [Obs.] South.

One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition. "A better and enduring substance." Heb. x. 34. -- En*dur"ing*ly, adv. T. Arnold. -- En*dur"ing*ness, n.

Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

Everlasting. Shak.

A variety of gesso which when dried becomes hard and durable, often used in making bas-relief casts, which are colored and mounted in elaborate frames.

See Endurance.

Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith.

State of being indurated, or of having become hard.