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w from her sage and virtuous rules... breaks the neck of their own cause." Milton. -- To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. Neh. ix. 17. -- To tread on the neck of, to oppress; to tyrannize over.

Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; 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.

To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.

To incrust; to harden. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

r own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Josh. xi. 20.

as, his orthography is vicious. When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation, but is hardened into orthography. Earle.

Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. Ruskin.

The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

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

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

s calcium sulphate, or calcined gypsum, which forms with water a paste which soon sets or hardens, and is used for casts, moldings, etc. The term is loosely applied to any plaster stone or species of gypsum. -- Plaster of Paris bandage (Surg.), a bandage saturated with a paste of plaster of Paris, which on drying form…

s certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform. They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, Grieving to see his glory . . . took envy. Milton.

olic priest; the Roman Catholic Church. -- Roman cement, a cement having the property of hardening under water; a species of hydraulic cement. -- Roman law. See under Law. -- Roman nose, a nose somewhat aquiline. -- Roman ocher, a deep, rich orange color, transparent and durable, used by artists. Ure. -- Roman ord…

lerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.

Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.