Word
Refractory
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
re-frac-to-ry
Definition
- a. - Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn;
unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
- a. - 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.
- n. - A refractory person.
- n. - Refractoriness.
- n. - 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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