Meaning of REFRACTORY in English

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Meaning of REFRACTORY in English

• Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
• 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.
• A refractory person.
• Refractoriness.
• 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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