An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.

A parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance.

Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

something that happens; an occurrence; an event.

By chance; peradventure; haply.

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

relating to or based on the sense of touch.

A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

See Hagbut.

A ritual form of suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.

To address by an harangue.

Full of harangue.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.

Devastation; waste.

troubled persistently, especially with petty annoyances; as, harassed working mothers.

One who harasses.

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

Harborous.

To usher in; to be a harbinger of.

To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

Shelter; entertainment.

One who, or that which, harbors.

Without a harbor; shelterless.

Hospitable.

A shelter.

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device, and not changeable by programming; -- of functions; as, error correction is hard-wired into the circuit of the disk drive, so it proceeds very rapidly.

invariable; firmly established; as, hard-and-fast regulations.

baked until hard.

same as hard-bitten.

not given to sentimentality or gentleness; -- of people; as, a hard-bitten character.

Having rigid front and back covers, usually boards covered with paper, cloth, or leather; -- of books. Contrasted with softcover and paperback.

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.

Coarseness of features.

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.

Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.

Vigorously contested by both opponents; -- of contests; as, a hard-fought battle; a hard-fought primary election.

Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.

Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd; practical and pragmatic.

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.

characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.

facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; tough and pragmatic; as, a hard-nosed businessman.

having a reduced ability to hear, but not fully deaf; partly deaf.

An erect penis; a penile erection.

facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; -- see distressed{1}.

Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.

paved; -- of roads. Opposite of unpaved.

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread

Requiring great patience and effort and skill; demanding; -- of persons. Opposite of undemanding.

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.

Acquired with difficulty; as, to squander one's hard-won fortune.

A person who strictly enforces rules and regulations.

A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers; a hardcover book. Compare paperback.

A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.

a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin to form sheets, used in construction and various other purposes; -- called also particle board and chipboard.

same as hardback; -- used of books.

Same as hardback n. and a.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.

Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

Making hard or harder.

A South African mullet, salted for food.

A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa is also called by this name.

Clash or collision of heads in contest.

Hardihood.

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

Same as Hardly.

Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.

Capability of endurance.

Somewhat hard.

Seldom; rarely; almost never.

The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

A hard-nosed person; one who is realistic and pragmatic and is impatient with those who are not.

See Hordock.

The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a.

The refuse or coarse part of flax; tow.

That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

Firmly twisted in spinning.

See Jurel.

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

One who makes, or deals in, hardware.

Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; consisting of a hardwood; as, hardwood floors; -- of wood and wooden objects.

habitually working diligently and for long hours.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

To excite; to tease, harass, or worry; to harry.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened.

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium); -- so named from the shape of its leaves.

A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton.

A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless.

A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.

See Harrier.

The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.

A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Muslim families.

Herring-shaped.

The snowy owl.

A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

See Harrier.

See Hara-kiri.

Prognostication; soothsaying.

Like a hare.

To listen; to hearken.

To hearken.

A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.

The red-breasted merganser.

To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.

any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, especially the eastern coral snake, a small poisonous snake (Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius), ringed with red and black, found in the Southeastern United States. They are widely distributed in Southern and Central America;

A play or part of a play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.

Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.

To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.