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Ivory :: Ivory (n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility..

Olivewood :: Olivewood (n.) An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elaeodendron, and also to the trees themselves..

Crusty :: Crusty (a.) Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance..

Collision :: Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing..

Scard :: Scard (n.) A shard or fragment.

Foolhardiness :: Foolhardiness (n.) Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.

Specie :: Specie (n.) Coin; hard money.

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..

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness..

Foreby :: Foreby (prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.

Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron..

Knobby :: Knobby (a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances..

Komtok :: Komtok (n.) An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food..

Stumpy :: Stumpy (a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.

Boomerang :: Boomerang (n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward t

Cast Iron :: Cast iron () Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc..

Hard-tack :: Hard-tack (n.) A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

Stopped :: Stor (a.) Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.

Pozzolana :: Pozzolana (n.) Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water..

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

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