Definition of harden

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Harden (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying..

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Chill :: Chill (v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others..
Callose :: Callose (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
Kern :: Kern (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening..
Hardening :: Hardening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harde.
Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense..
Obdurate :: Obdurate (v. t.) To harden.
Callosity :: Callosity (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction..
Solidify :: Solidify (v. i.) To become solid; to harden.
Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron..
Hob :: Hob (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc..
Sclerosis :: Sclerosis (n.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue..
Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..
Consolidate :: Consolidate (v. t.) To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
Scybala :: Scybala (n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces.
Heliotypy :: Heliotypy (n.) A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Baking :: Baking (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold..
Hub :: Hub (n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc..
Kernel :: Kernel (v. i.) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Chill :: Chill (n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel..
Crapefish :: Crapefish (n.) Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
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