"overharden" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1661, Robert Boyle, “[Some Specimens of an Attempt to Make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy.] The History of Fluidity and Firmnesse. The Second Part. Of Firmnesse.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC, page 286:",
          "text": "[I]t has acquir'd ſuch a hardneſs, that being throvvn againſt the floor it vvould rebound, and vvas brittle like over-harden'd Steel.",
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        "To harden too much."
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