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From the Hare's Valley
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English (mainly southeastern England)
English (mainly southeastern England) : habitational name from Harden in West Yorkshire, which gets its name from Old English hara ‘hare’ or hær ‘rock’ + denu ‘valley’. Harden in Staffordshire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Haworthyn, Harwerthyn (from Old English hēah ‘high’ + worðign ‘enclosure’), was probably not reduced to its modern form early enough to lie behind any examples of the surname.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair (see Hardy).North German : patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name with the first element hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : from a Norman personal name, Tancard, composed of the Germanic words þank ‘thought’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.English (mainly Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of barrels and drinking vessels, or a nickname for a hardened drinker, from Middle English tankard ‘tub’, ‘cup’ (apparently a borrowing from Middle Dutch).
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English : occupational name for a hardener of metals or a baker, from an agent derivative of Middle English harde(n); this verb is known to have been used with reference to metals and to heating dough.North German, Frisian, and Danish : from a personal name, Harder, Herder.South German : topographic name or habitational name from any of the places named with Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’.
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n.
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
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An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
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Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
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The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
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Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
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Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
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Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
n. pl.
Hardened masses of feces.
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In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
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One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
v. i.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
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A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
v. t.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
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That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
v. t.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
v. t.
To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.