Inflammation from pressure and it can indurate.

Worse (<) night; pains in joints or inflammations which indurate.

This reflected opinion of others wrought also to the mollifying of his mother's feelings toward him; but those with which she regarded Annie they only served to indurate, as the more revealing the girl's unworthiness of him.

Aurora Leigh comparing the woman she loved with the man, for instance: She at least Was not built up as walls are, brick by brick Each fancy squared, each feeling ranged by line, The very heat of burning youth applied To indurate form and system!

I thought he had forsaken romance, that time had made him indurate.

The bases of the phyllaries are indurate, or hardened, and rarely wholly foliaceous, meaning leaf-like in appearance.

The weak incisors suggest to Carleton that it eats more "indurate" fruits and insects than other Eliurus.

Although the plant is similar to S. spinosa, it differs in that it has narrower leaves and calyces, is less indurate and has less spiny fruiting calyces, and possesses a longer corolla tube.