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- English Word Hard-fisted Definition Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
- English Word Hard-fisted Definition Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
- English Word Hard-fought Definition contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
- English Word Hard-handed Definition Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
- English Word Hard-headed Definition Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
- English Word Hard-hearted Definition Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
- English Word Hard-labored Definition Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
- English Word Hard-mouthed Definition Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.
- English Word Hard-shell Definition Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
- English Word Hard-tack Definition A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
- English Word Hard-visaged Definition Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
- English Word Hardbake Definition A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.
- English Word Hardbeam Definition A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.
- English Word Harddihead Definition Hardihood.
- English Word Harddihood Definition Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.
- English Word Harden Definition To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
- English Word Harden Definition To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
- English Word Harden Definition To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
- English Word Harden Definition To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
- English Word Hardened Definition of Harden
- English Word Hardened Definition Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
- English Word Hardener Definition One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
- English Word Hardening Definition of Harden
- English Word Hardening Definition Making hard or harder.
- English Word Hardening Definition That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
- English Word Harder Definition A South African mullet, salted for food.
- English Word Harderian Definition 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.
- English Word Hardfavoredness Definition Coarseness of features.
- English Word Hardfern Definition A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.
- English Word Hardhack Definition A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.