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

Imperfectly indurated or hardened.

substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. Kirwan.

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

, 1. -- French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. -- Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.

n of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.

State of being indurated, or of having become hard.

Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. [Written also skirrhous.]

An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland. [Obs.]

Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.

Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

ping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails. -- Slate clay (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson. -- Slate globe, a globe the surface of which i…

t is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate.