Word Meanings - OVERHARDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.

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• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• 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,
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• HAMMER-HARDEN
  To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.