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Meaning Of Refractory
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.