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Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

l, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicuña, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).

Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.

tes, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.] The coats, without, are context and callous. Derham.

e corporeal substance of a thing. Corpus callosum (k; pl. Corpora callosa (-s Etym: [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursda…

Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

Hard; callous. "His horny fist." Dryden.

Having the hands horny and callous from labor.

A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock.

Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. "Petrifaction of the soul." Cudworth.

Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.

To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logica…

such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. I'm seared with burning steel. Rowe. It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience. Macaulay. The discipline of war, be…

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. Bp. Hall.