Word Meanings - HARDENER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

Related words: (words related to HARDENER)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation
• SPECIFICATE
  To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.
• SPECIFICAL
  Specific. Bacon.
• SPECIFIC
  Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• DESPECIFICATE
  To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.
• DESPECIFICATION
  Discrimination.