Indurate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Hardened; not soft; indurated.

II. Indurate ·adj Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

III. Indurate ·vt To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

IV. Indurate ·vi To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

V. Indurate ·vt To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.