REFRACTORY
\ɹɪfɹˈaktəɹˌi], \ɹɪfɹˈaktəɹˌi], \ɹ_ɪ_f_ɹ_ˈa_k_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of REFRACTORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
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resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule"
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not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"
By Princeton University
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stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
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resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
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A refractory person.
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Refractoriness.
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OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
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Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; - said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
By Oddity Software
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Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
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A refractory person.
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Refractoriness.
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OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
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Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; - said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
By Noah Webster.
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Refractoriness.
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Refractorily.
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Breaking through rules: unruly: unmanageable: obstinate: perverse: difficult of fusion, as metals, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Disobedient; unyielding; unmanageable; difficult to fuse; as, refractory ore.
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Refractorily.
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Reiractoriness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; contumacious; difficult of fusion.
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A person obstinate in opposition or disobedience.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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