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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Skeleton :: Skeleton (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
Mill :: Mill (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper..
Shield :: Shield (n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci..
Kernel :: Kernel (v. i.) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Grozing Iron :: Grozing iron () A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass..
Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc..
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..
Casehardened :: Casehardened (a.) Having the surface hardened, as iron tools..
Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices..
Braze :: Braze (v. i.) To harden.
Bake :: Bake (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground..
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..
Chill :: Chill (n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel..
Induration :: Induration (n.) The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard..
Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron..
Hard :: Hard (v. t.) To harden; to make hard.
Hardening :: Hardening (n.) Making hard or harder.
Crapefish :: Crapefish (n.) Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..
Semiindurated :: Semiindurated (a.) Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
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