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Aerial
adjective · 78% connection
Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, ae…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Baking
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Bois durci
unknown · 78% connection
A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Callosity
noun · 78% connection
A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pres…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Candleberry tree
unknown · 78% connection
A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Comb
noun · 78% connection
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Crust
noun · 78% connection
The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Difficulty
noun · 78% connection
Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseveranc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Dryandra
noun · 78% connection
A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Dys-
unknown · 78% connection
An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek / hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Grind
verb · 78% connection
To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Hard
superl. · 78% connection
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Hard-favored
adjective · 78% connection
Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Hard-fisted
adjective · 78% connection
Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Hardening
noun · 78% connection
abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Hardpan
noun · 78% connection
The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Horn
noun · 78% connection
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
Indurate
verb · 78% connection
To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hardening, growing, hard.
