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Word Meanings - HARDENER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

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  • 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.

 

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