Word Meanings - CALLOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

Related words: (words related to CALLOSE)

• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• PROTUBERANT
  Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• HARDEN
  Etym: 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
• HARDENING
  1. Making hard or harder. 2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
• HARDENER
  One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
• HARDENED
  Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice. Syn. -- Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
• OVERHARDEN
  To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.
• SELF-HARDENING
  Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese,
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
• CASEHARDEN
  1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. 2. To render insensible to good influences.
• ENHARDEN
  To harden; to embolden. Howell.
• REFURNISHMENT
  The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
• UNFURNISH
  To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
• CASEHARDENED
  1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. 2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.
• UNDERFURNISH
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.
• CASEHARDENING
  The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure. Note: Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth and degree of hardening depending on the time during which
• REFURNISH
  To furnish again.
• DISFURNISHMENT
  The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.