Definition of "indurating" []

• Present participle of indurate. (verb)

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• "For accelerating the setting of cements they use carbonate of soda, alum, and carbonate of ammonia; for indurating or increasing the hardening properties of cements they use chloride of calcium, oxide of magnesia, and chloride of magnesia or bittern water; for obtaining an intense hardness they use oxychloride of magnesia."
• "Pilot-bread, a year or so baked, and ever since subjected to the indurating influences of an atmosphere intensely dry, is not particularly succulent or savory food, and I did not find it improved by some minutes 'immersion in the frying-pan of hot lard from which our rations of pork had just been turned out; but others of more experience liked it much."
• "There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softness, even at this indurating period of the year."