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   Harden (härdˈ'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n‑ĭng).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
   1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, “to harden clay or iron”.
   
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   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 unimpressionable. “Harden not your heart.”  Ps. xcv. 8.
   
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   I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.
   
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   Harden, v. i.
   1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, “mortar hardens by drying”.
   
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   The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century.
   
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   2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
   
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   They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton.
   
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   Hurden (?), n. [From Hurds.] A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.]
   
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