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H`ARDEN, h`ardn. To make hard or more hard to make firm or compact to indurate as, to harden iron or steel to harden clay.

1. To confirm in effrontery to make impudent as, to harden the face.

2. To make obstinate, unyielding or refractory as, to harden the neck. Jeremiah 19

3. To confirm in wickedness, opposition or enmity to make obdurate.

Why then do ye harden your hearts, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians hardened their hearts? 1 Samuel 6

So God is said to harden the heart, when he withdraws the influences of his spirit from men, and leaves them to pursue their own corrupt inclinations.

4. To make insensible or unfeeling as, to harden one against impressions of pity or tenderness.

5. To make firm to endure with constancy.

I would harden myself in sorrow. Job 6

6. To inure to render firm or less liable to injury, by exposure or use as, to harden to a climate or to labor.

H`ARDEN, h`ardn. To become hard or more hard to acquire solidity or more compactness. Mortar hardens by drying.

1. To become unfeeling.

2. To become inured.

3. To indurate, as flesh.