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 tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

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.

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.

To harlot.

Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.

A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.

A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.

Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.

Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon.

Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.

In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.

A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica.

The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.

An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.

One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.

One of a religious sect, founded in W/rtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.

A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

capable of being made harmonious or consistent.

The act of harmonizing.

To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.

One who harmonizes.

An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.

The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

A city governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.

One who harnesses.

The brains.

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.