- (n.) A refractory person.
- (n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
- (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.
- (a.) Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
- (n.) Refractoriness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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