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Iodide. [Obs.]

The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. "Obduracy and persistency." Shak. The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. South.

s; 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.

A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. [Obs.]

To harden. [Obs.] Milton.

Obdurate; hard. [Obs.] This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured. Milton.

Hardness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.

Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. Drayton.

To outlast. [Obs.]

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

Durability; lastingness. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Archaic] Chaucer. Shak. -- Per*dur"a*bly, adv. [Archaic]

Long continuance. [Archaic]

To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting. [Archaic] The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines. Hickok.

ones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale (Zoöl.), one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope.

Any species of Podura or allied genera. -- a.

er of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience." South.

Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.