4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Harden \Hard"en\, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
compactness; as mortar hardens by drying.
The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A.
Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century.
2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a
bad sense
They hardened more by what might most reclaim.
--Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Harden \Hard"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}; p. pr & vb
n. {Hardening}.] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
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 unimpressionable.
``Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8.
I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi 10.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From {Hurds}.]
A coarse kind of linen; -- called also {harden}. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
harden
v 1: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [ant: {soften}]
2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [ant: {soften}]
3: harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [syn:
{temper}]
4: make fit "This trip will season even the hardiest
traveller" [syn: {season}]
5: cause to accept or become hardened to habituate; "He was
inured to the cold" [syn: {inure}]
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