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Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. [R.] The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude. W. H. Russell.

Lasting. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not lasting. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

reements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. Burke.

One who subjects another to duress Bacon.

To burn up. [Obs.] Bacon.

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15.

Endurance. [Obs.] South.

One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

Iodide. [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.

To outlast. [Obs.]

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.

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