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Assay :: Assay (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.

Quince :: Quince (n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves..

Stubbedness :: Stubbed (a.) Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.

Shardy :: Shardy (a.) Having, or consisting of, shards..

Grave :: Grave (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving..

Appurtenance :: Appurtenance (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

Bitumen :: Bitumen (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas..

Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..

Crustiness :: Crustiness (n.) The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.

Obduration :: Obduration (n.) A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.

Pan :: Pan (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard..

Ironsides :: Ironsides (n. /) A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry..

Endure :: Endure (v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.

Scrub :: Scrub (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice..

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals..

Gritty :: Gritty (a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

Pilchard :: Pilchard (n.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England..

Nutshell :: Nutshell (n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

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