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Stone :: Stone (n.) To make like stone; to harden.

Sabicu :: Sabicu (n.) The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding..

Pietra Dura :: Pietra dura () Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble..

Shell :: Shell (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal..

Strontium :: Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3..

Redhead :: Redhead (n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard..

Mahogany :: Mahogany (n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture..

Use :: Use (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger..

Squeeze :: Squeeze (v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush..

Emmarble :: Emmarble (v. t.) To turn to marble; to harden.

Rhabdite :: Rhabdite (n.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Scasely :: Scasely (adv.) Scarcely; hardly.

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China..

Verger :: Verger (n.) A garden or orchard.

Rub :: Rub (n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

Working-day :: Working-day (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working..

Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) A California salmon; the steelhead.

Indurate :: Indurate (v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air..

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