*arden*

n. 1. a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OE. ardaunt, F. ardant, p. pr. of arder to burn, fr. L. ardere. ] 1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ardent and impetuous race. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Burning; hot; fiery; glowing; intense; fierce; vehement; eager; zealous; keen; fervid; fervent; passionate; affectionate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ardency. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any type of strongly alcoholic beverage prepared by distillation of an alcohol-containing fermented material. [ PJC ]

a. Experienced in combat, and therefore more effective at fighting; -- used mostly of infantry troops; as, battle-hardened veterans.
Syn. -- combat-hardened, combat-tested. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To render insensible to good influences. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth and degree of hardening (carbonization) depending on the time during which the iron is exposed to the heat. See Cementation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a churchwarden. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A character in Dickens's novel “Barnaby Rudge, ” a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dolly Varden trout (Zool.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + harden: cf. F. enhardir to embolden. ] To harden; to embolden. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to harden (steel) by adding carbon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals. Syn. -- gamekeeper, game warden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure. ] 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina). --
Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens. --
Garden glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany. --
Garden house (a) A summer house. Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [ Southern U.S. ] --
Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale. --
Garden mold or
Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. Mortimer. --
Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. Knight. --
Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds. --
Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence. --
Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot, a watering pot. --
Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump. --
Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc. --
Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web. --
Garden stand, a stand for flower pots. --
Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [ Colloq. ] --
Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc. --
Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [ Colloq. ] --
Garden ware, garden truck. [ Obs. ] Mortimer. --
Bear garden,
Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc. --
Hanging garden. See under Hanging. --
Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use. --
Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gardened p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening. ] To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cultivate as a garden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a garden. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a garden. [ R. ] W. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Horticulture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Guardianship. [ Obs. & R. ] “ His tuition and guardenage.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hardened p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening ] [ OE. hardnen, hardenen. ] 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. “Harden not your heart.” Ps. xcv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [ A. Lincoln ] has hardened into tradition. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.
Syn. -- genus Hardenbergia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions; as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics. [ PJC ]

3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops. [ PJC ]

4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Making hard or harder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annual (Polygonum orientale) with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; it is native to Southeastern Asia and Australia, and naturalized in North America.
Syn. -- prince's-feather, prince's feather, princess feather, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Metal.) Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high-speed steels. -- Self`-hard"en*ed, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ OE. wardein, OF. wardein, gardein, gardain, F. gardien. See Guardian, and Ward guard. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. [ 1913 Webster ]

He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Properly, a keeping pear. ] A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I would have had him roasted like a warden. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]