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Refractory 1

Definition: Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.

Refractory 2

Definition: 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.

Refractory 3

Definition: A refractory person.

Refractory 4

Definition: Refractoriness.

Refractory 5

Definition: OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.

refractory 6

Definition: lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace

refractory 7

Definition: resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule"

refractory 8

Definition: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

refractory 9

Definition: marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius"

refractory 10

Definition: not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"

 

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