Callous: alternatives and connections

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

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Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

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Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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of Toughen

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of Toughen

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To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

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Hardened; not soft; indurated.

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To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice…

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To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.

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Hardened; not soft; indurated.

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Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.

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of Thicken

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