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Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.

Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.

A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.

A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.

Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

The pilchard.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

ed with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

w or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

ss, but not artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the spring as a forcing bed. -- Pit coal, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal. -- Pit frame, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine. -- Pit head, the surface of the ground at the mouth of…

Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster…

sure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.