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A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.]

Cataract, 3. -- Hydraulic cement, a cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden under water. -- Hydraulic elevator, a lift operated by the weight or pressure of water. -- Hydraulic jack. See under Jack. -- Hydraulic lime, quicklime obtained from hydraulic limestone, and used for cementing under wate…

One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.

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

The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.

; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery…

To harden, as corn in ripening. [Obs.] Carew.

To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

uch used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

A hardening into a stone substance.

A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.

Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

ourageous, resolute, noble. Let's briefly put on manly readiness. Shak. Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life. Dryden.

of numerous species of solitary bees of the genus Osmia. They construct curious nests of hardened mud and sand. -- Mason moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larva constructs an earthen cocoon under the soil. -- Mason shell (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells an…

A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold. Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted. -- Match game, a game a…

g. Rogers. Mild, or Low, steel, steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily hardened.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.