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n. (Med.) See Cundurango. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [ Written also condurango. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Short form for Dura mater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. durabilitas. ] The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. durabilis, fr. durare to last: cf. F. durable. See Dure. ] Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey.

Syn. -- Lasting; permanent; enduring; firm; stable; continuing; constant; persistent. See Lasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability. [ 1913 Webster ]

The durableness of the metal that supports it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a lasting manner; with long continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ a trademark. ] an aluminum-based alloy which is both light and strong, containing 4 per cent of copper and 0.5 per cent of magnesium and smaller amounts of iron, manganese, and silicon. It hardens with aging at room temperature. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖ [ L., lit., hard mother. The membrane was called mater, or mother, because it was formerly thought to give rise to every membrane of the body. ] (Anat.) The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., hardness, a hardened, i. e., ligneous, vine branch, fr. durare to harden. See Dure. ] (Bot.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. durance duration, fr. L. durans, -antis, p. pr. durare to endure, last. See Dure, and cf. Durant. ] 1. Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. “Durance vile.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (a) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where didst thou buy this buff? let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. J. Webster.

(b) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Duration. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. durant, p. pr. of durer to last. Cf. Durance. ] See Durance, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prep. [ L., abl. case of the p. pr. of durare to last. ] (Law) During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. duration. See Dure. ] The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Continuing; not completed; implying duration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on. J. Byrne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. endurable. See Endure. ] Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay. -- En*dur"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

adv. In an endurable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure. ] 1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Endurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. induratus, p. p. of indurare to harden. See Endure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Indurated p. pr. & vb. n. Indurating ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. induration, L. induratio hardness of heart. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. “Obduracy and persistency.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obduratus, p. p. of obdurare to harden; ob (see Ob-)+ durare to harden, durus hard. See Dure. ] 1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. [ 1913 Webster ]

The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,
Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. “Obdurate consonants.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the older poets. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible; unsusceptible. -- Obdurate, Callous, Hardened. Callous denotes a deadening of the sensibilities; as, a callous conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an active resistance of the heart and will aganst the pleadings of compassion and humanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ob"du*rate*ly adv. -- Ob"du*rate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To harden. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obduratio. ] A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. pandura a pandore + -form: cf. F. panduriforme. ] 1. Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Shaped like a fiddle; -- of a leaf.
Syn. -- fiddle-shaped. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Durability; lastingness. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. perdurable, OE. pardurable. See Perdure. ] Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Per*dur"a*bly, adv. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

n. (Philosophy) The philosophical view considering the fundamental objects of the real world as extended in the direction of time, so that the objects themselves do not change, though temporal parts may have different properties. Contrasted to endurantism, a view considering objects to be wholly present at each instant of time. [ PJC ]

n. (Philosophy) A philosopher who considers the fundamental objects of the real world as extended in the direction of time, so that the objects themselves do not change, though temporal parts may have different properties. Contrasted to endurantist, one who considers objects to be wholly present at each instant. [ PJC ]

{ } n. Long continuance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It., hard stone. ] (Fine Arts) Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Poduræ E. Poduras [ NL.; Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + &unr_; tail. ] Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Podura scale (Zool.), one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imperfectly indurated or hardened. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane. [ 1913 Webster ]