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A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a…

r private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] Hayward. Immortal flowers, imortelles; everlastings.

cy of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings. My heart, impulsive and wayward. Longfellow.

ght disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness. Hayward.

that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance. Hayward.

Liable to trial in a court of justice. [Obs.] Hayward.

tore. Like a pedant that keeps a school. Shak. Every one of them kept house by himself. Hayward.

a clown. [Obs.] The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubs and clouted shoon. Hayward.

In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously. Hayward.

r esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. Hayward.

lence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.

A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] Hayward.

rmine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. They mined the walls. Hayward. Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers... had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. Sir W. Scott.

hak. They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects. Hayward.

Lousily. [Obs.] Haywar

Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [Obs.] Hayward.

To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.

ely by of; as, to participate in a debate. Shak. So would he participateof their wants. Hayward. Mine may come when men With angels may participate. Milton.