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; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth Shak.

To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance),

To saturate to excess.

A salt of oxaluric acid.

Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently. [R.]

To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.

Of or pertaining to purpura.

To inaugurate anew.

To restore. [Obs.]

The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.

lly; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.

Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.

Imperfectly indurated or hardened.

A salt of succinuric acid.

A salt of sulphauric acid.

Sulphureous. [Poetic & R.] Dr. H. More.

To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.