3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Refractory \Re*frac"to*ry\, n.
1. A refractory person. --Bp. Hall.
2. Refractoriness. [Obs.] --Jer. TAylor.
3. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux
and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other
articles. --Knight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Refractory \Re*frac"to*ry\ (-r?), a. [L. refractorius fr
refringere: cf F. refractaire See {Refract}.]
1. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn;
unmanageable; as a refractory child; a refractory beast.
Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and
refractory. --Shak.
2. Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion,
reduction, or the like -- said especially of metals and
the like which do not readily yield to heat, or to the
hammer; as a refractory ore.
Syn: Perverse; contumacious; unruly; stubborn; obstinate;
unyielding; ungovernable; unmanageable.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
refractory
adj 1: resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule"
2: (med) not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection";
"a refractory case of acne" [syn: {stubborn}]
3: marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or
guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves
around a refractory individual genius" [syn: {recalcitrant}]
4: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious
animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a
refractory child" [syn: {fractious}]
n : material with a high melting point that is used to line the
inside walls of a furnace [syn: {furnace lining}]
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