Word Meanings - HARDENER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
Related words: (words related to HARDENER)
- SPECIFICNESS
The quality or state of being specific. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SPECIFY
To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SPECIFIABLE
Admitting specification; capable of being specified. - SPECIFICALNESS
The quality of being specific. - SPECIFICATION
1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation - SPECIFICATE
To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale. - SPECIFICAL
Specific. Bacon. - SPECIFIC
Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in - CONSPECIFIC
Of the same species. - DESPECIFICATE
To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall. - DESPECIFICATION
Discrimination.