Word Meanings - ENHARDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To harden; to embolden. Howell.
Related words: (words related to ENHARDEN)
- HOWELL
The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. - EMBOLDENER
One who emboldens. - HARDEN
Etym: 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. 2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make - HARDENING
1. Making hard or harder. 2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. - EMBOLDEN
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak. The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office. Sir W. Scott. - HARDENER
One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools. - HARDENED
Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice. Syn. -- Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate. - OVERHARDEN
To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle. - SELF-HARDENING
Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, - CASEHARDEN
1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. 2. To render insensible to good influences. - ENHARDEN
To harden; to embolden. Howell. - CASEHARDENED
1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. 2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons. - CASEHARDENING
The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure. Note: Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth and degree of hardening depending on the time during which - HAMMER-HARDEN
To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.