Duresco, duréscis, dúrui, duréscere. Durum fieri. Columel. To ware or become hard.Frigonbus durescit humor.Cic.Is frozen.In lectione alicuius durescere. Quint. To continue long in reading of an authour.Coire & durescere. Plin. To grow togither, and ware harde.Situ durescit campus.Virg. Limus durescit igni. Virgil.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dūresco, rui, 3, v. inch. n., to grow hard, to harden.I. Prop.: durescit humor, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; so in the praes.: limus, Verg. E. 8, 80: campus, id. G. 1, 72: corpus, Ov. M. 8, 607: curalium, id. ib. 15, 417: oraque duruerant, id. ib. 2, 831: durescente materia, Tac. G. 45.—II.Trop.: in alicujus lectione, qs. to become ossified, Quint. 2, 5, 21; 10, 5, 16. durēta, ae, f. [a Span. word], a wooden bathing-tub, Suet. Aug. 82 fin.
