Refractory
Refractory (-r?) , adjective
[Latin refractorius, from refringere: compare French refractaire. See Refract.]
1.
Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
Raging appetites that are
Most disobedient and refractory.
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.
Refractory , noun
1.
A refractory person. — Bp. Hall
2.
Refractoriness. [Obsolete] — 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