refractory

1. a. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. n. A refractory person. Source: opted

4. n. Refractoriness. Source: opted

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

6. adj. not responding to treatment Source: wordnet

7. adj. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus Source: wordnet

8. adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control Source: wordnet

9. n. lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace Source: wordnet

10. 1. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak. 2. 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. Syn. -- Perverse; contumacious; unruly; stubborn; obstinate; unyielding; ungovernable; unmanageable. 1. A refractory person. Bp. Hall. 2. Refractoriness. [Obs.] Jer. TAylor. 3. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight. Source: webster

11. j:100 s. not responding to treatment s. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli Source: ecdict

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