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Thanks. [Obs.] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. Chaucer.

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude. C. Reade. E. P. Whipple.

Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [Colloq., U. S.]

Yielding guano. Ure.

but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

Yielding gum or resinous substances.

nce. -- To hang out. (a) To be hung out so as to be displayed; to project. (b) To be unyielding; as, the juryman hangs out against an agreement. [Colloq.] (c) to lounge around a particular place; as, teenageers tend to hang out at the mall these days -- To hang over.

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. [Collog., U.S.]

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. Shak.

s smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white- flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. Moxon.

is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.

a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.

Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured land." J. Philips. -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. -- Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.

Not to be persuaded; obstinate; unyielding; impersuasible. -- Im`per*suad"a*ble*ness, n.

Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.

plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson.

Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn. -- In`com*pli"ant*ly, adv.