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Hardness :: Hardness (n.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes..

Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense..

Sear :: Sear (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat 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..

Scleroid :: Scleroid (a.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells..

Shard :: Shard (n.) A gap in a fence.

Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings..

Aegilops :: Aegilops (n.) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass..

Cruel :: Cruel (a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless..

Hard-favored :: Hard-favored (a.) Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored..

Corneouss :: Corneouss (a.) Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

Flag :: Flag (n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones..

Difficult :: Difficult (a.) Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous..

Importunate :: Importunate (a.) Hard to be borne; unendurable.

Scarcely :: Scarcely (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..

Arduous :: Arduous (a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..

Manganese :: Manganese (n.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8..

Ostracoidea :: Ostracoidea (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about..

Graver :: Graver (n.) One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

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