Both Uses
callous
in
Song of Myself
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- (Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.†* - Mine is no callous shell,
I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(callous as in: callous indifference) heartless (cruel lack of concern for other's feelings)
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(2)
(callous as in: a thick callous) thickened skin that comes from rubbing as when having calluses on the hands from doing much work with a shovel
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)