Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Obstinate in disobedience; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. 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. 3. (n.) A refractory person. 4. (n.) Refractoriness. 5. (n.) (Pottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.

Multi-Version Concordance Refractory (7 Occurrences) Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; (See RSV) Nehemiah 9:29 and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they -- they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, -- which man doth and hath lived in them -- and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened. (YLT) Psalms 66:7 Ruling by His might to the age, His eyes among the nations do watch, The refractory exalt not themselves. Selah. (YLT) Psalms 68:6 God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place. (YLT) Psalms 68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God. (YLT) Hosea 4:16 For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture. (DBY YLT) Zechariah 7:11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. (YLT)