Salt meats, and other foods which have much salt added to them, are hard to digest because the salt hardens the fibres of the meat, so that they are not easily dissolved by the digestive fluids.
Bathing in cool waterhardens the skin, and renders one less likely to take cold.
As a general rule, pain, especially if it be mental, hardens and roughens the character.
Then, jerking her body suddenly upward, she draws out this gum into a slender thread, which hardens as soon as it comes into contact with the air; and just as she lets go she fastens an egg to the tip.
In the East Indies a kind of swift makes such a nest wholly out of its saliva, which hardens into a whitish material like isinglass.
Then they cling with their feelers to the first rock, log, or other hard thing they come to, and pour out a drop or two of a very strong cement, which hardens around them and fastens them firmly down.
Then speeds amain the great Sabellian boar, His tushes whets, with forefoot tears the ground, Rubs 'gainst a tree his flanks, and to and fro Hardens each wallowing shoulder to the wound.
Fine hairs within secrete tiny drops of fluid at their tips - a secretion which hardens into a brittle crust, like a syrup's, when it dries.
Within the boat is an extremely sticky cement that hardens almost instantly on exposure to the air.
Let us keep our possession to the last; for the most part, a manhardens himself by being obstinate, and corrects his constitution, as Caesar did the falling sickness, by dint of contempt.
I am obliged to Fortune for having so often assaulted me with the same sort of weapons: she forms and fashions me by use, hardens and habituates me, so that I can know within a little for how much I shall be quit.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortarhardens by drying.
A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree.
Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied.
It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.
Defn: Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.
This hardens the albumen into an air-tight case for the yolk.
The frosting hardens in one-fourth the time required under the former plan, and not more than half the time is consumed in the manufacture.
Boil twenty-five minutes; then stir in half a pound of grated chocolate wet in half a cup of sweet milk, and boil until it hardens on the spoon, with which you must stir it frequently.
As habit becomes character, so expression hardensinto feature.
If frost or drought hardensthe ground, the snipe must starve or travel.
Leakproof joints are made between these covers and the rubber jars and the wooden case by means of sealing compound which is poured in place while in a molten condition, and joins the covers to the jars and which hardens as it cools.
In sealing last layer with flame, care should be taken not to play flame on compound too long as thishardens and burns the compound.
As the compound cools it hardens and sticks to the covers and is removed with difficulty.
In all these ways it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.
Let it stand and simmer a few minutes covered, but do not let it boil--it hardens the meat to boil it.
But when the paint is laid on during cold weather, it hardens in drying, and is firmly set.
Instead of unfolding and expanding the heart of man, it hardens it and dries up the better nature.
The same furnace thathardens clay liquefies gold; and the manifestation of Divine power Pharaoh found his punishment, but David his pardon.
Calamity never leaves us where it finds us; it either softens orhardens the heart of its victim.
Pride against love, ambition and revenge Against devotion and compliancy: Her glorious beams adversity hath blunted; And coming nearer to our quiet view The original clay of coarse mortality Hardens and flaws around her.
Put 1 cup of sugar and ½ cup of water in a sauce-pan and stir until the sugar is all dissolved; then place it over the fire and let it boil until it hardens and is quite crisp when dropped in cold water.
Boil until it hardens when dropped into cold water, then pour into buttered tins.
When the candy hardens in cold water, pour into shallow buttered tins, and as soon as it is cool enough to handle, pull it until it is of a straw-color.
The chasehardens the heart a well as the body; we get used to the sight of blood and cruelty.
She keeps children at work, she hardens them by all kinds of difficulties, she soon teaches them the meaning of pain and grief.
That word brutalizes the New Testament, changes the Sermon on the Mount to hypocrisy and cant, and pollutes and hardens the very heart of Christ.
The Society for First Aid to the Injured hardens its heart in these cases.
A sort of chunam or cement made of pounded sea-shells mixed with oil, which hardens like a stone, and is put over a ship's bottom in India, so that worms cannot penetrate even when the copper is off.
A cement which hardens under water; used for piers, docks, &c.
At last Phœbus comes to its aid, and drives it away as it tries to inflict its sting, and hardens the open jaws of the serpent into stone, and makes solid its gaping mouth just as it is.
This may also be seen in common shell snails, if a part of their shell be broken it becomes repaired in a similar manner with mucus, which by degrees hardens into shell.
Boiling an egg for twenty minuteshardens and toughens the white, so that it all becomes hard to dissolve or digest.
It also gives the heat time to reach the centre and hardens the yolk, but does not toughen it or make it hard to dissolve or digest.
A material which is suitable for large objects to which the solution can only be applied upon the surface is Kessler's fluate[98], which is soluble in water, and which hardens the limestone without completely closing the pores.
Although it has the advantage that it hardens more rapidly than a simple solution of linseed oil it has also one disadvantage, for it gives a somewhat darker colour to light-coloured limestones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
