6. Roughly 
hard 
heavily. 
hard-cured 
2717 
(hard ' kurd), a. 
hardhead 
Cured, as fish, ished pottery is exposed to a low heat to drive 
lie [Time] trots hard with a young maid, between the very thoroughly by drying in the sun after salt- away superfhious oil. 
ing, until all the moisture is evaporated. Cod hardening-machine (hard ning-ma-shen"), . 
especially are thus prepared for the markets of warm coun- A machine in which the bodies of hats are 
tries, as the West ludies, Spain, and Italy. 
contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnised. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
7. Close ; near. 
My soul followeth hard after thee. Ps. Ixili. 8. hard-drawn (hiird'dran), a. 
The chirch of the priorie was hard joyned to the eat end 
of the paroeh chirch. Le.land, Monasticon, iv. 55. 
Then the dragon, like a coward, began to fly 
Unto his den, that was hard by. 
Sir Eglanwre (Child s Ballads, VIII. 197). 
[He) weighed hard upon eighteen stone. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 79. 
rubbed and pressed to felt the materials and 
render them more dense, and to diminish the 
as wire through a disk. s i ze o f t i ie hat. 
All wire for outside work should be hard-drawn, if for hardening-skin (hard' ning-skin), n. In hat- 
long spaces. Greer, Diet, of Electricity, p. 59. makill g i a p j e( . e o f partially tanned leather 
The present company has employed hard-drawn copper p i aee d over a bat of felting-hair while the work- 
wlre8 - Sci - A r " N ' s " Lv ' 89 " man compresses it with his hands. 
hard-dried (hard'dnd), a. Hard-cured, as fish. Harderian (har-de'ri-an), a. Of or pertaining 
Drawn when cold, 
JLailUGllctii ^uur-ue ii-aii,;, w. wi vi yvL m^g 
Fish prepared for the Spanish market should be very to the Swiss anatomist'J. J. Harder (1656-1711). 
8. Fully; closely; to the full extent: especial- hard-dried. Perley, Canada, p. 280. Harderian gland. See gland. 
ly in nautical use, in the commands for putting nar( }elvt, adv. A variant of hardly. Chaucer, hard-faced (hard'fast), a. Having a hard or 
the helm hard alee, hard aport, hard up, etc. - - .... . *, 
that is, as far as it will go in the direction indi- 
cated. 
Some of the monsters [ships] they commanded carried 
weather helms with wheels hard over. 
Sri. Amer., N. S., LVII. 161. 
9. So as to be hard in consistence: chiefly 
in composition: as, 7Kzr<J-burned, AarcZ-baked, 
Aard-boiled. 
If the clay be Aord-burned, it will be of a red color. 
C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. 149. 
Hard alee ! See alee. Hard all, with the greatest exer- 
tions of all engaged : used chiefly of boating. 
Pulling hard all from Sandford to Iffley, and then again 
from Iffley over the regular course. Macmillan's Mag. 
Hard and fast, closely ; firmly. 
So than held thei here way harde & faste, 
Til thei to Palerne prestili with al that pres come. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4878. 
Rab slips out, and jinks about 
Behint the muckle thorn: 
He grippet Nelly hard an' fast. 
Burns, Halloween. 
'(har'dn), v. [< ME. hardnen, an ex- stern face; hard-featured. Campbell. 
tension, with verb-formative - (cf. happen), hard-fa vored(hard'fa"vord),. Having coarse 
of ME. harden (pres. ind. harde), make hard : 
see hard, v. and a.] I. trans. 1. To make 
hard or more hard in substance or texture ; 
make firm or compact ; indurate : as, to har- 
den steel, clay, or tallow ; to harden the hands 
or muscles by toil. 
The Ouaymares haue hard skins, and beat their children 
features; harsh of countenance; repellent in 
aspect. 
Is that hard-favoured gentleman a poet too ? 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, ii. 1. 
He handsome outwardly, but of odd Conditions; she 
excellently qualified, but hard-favoured. 
Howell, Letters, it 1. 
with thistles to harden them. 
Punhas, Pilgrimage, p. 842. 
He spends not night on beds of down or feathers, 
Nor day in tents, but hardens to all weathers 
His youthful! limbs. 
The brother a very lovely youth, and the sister hard- 
favoured. Sir R. L' Estrange. 
hard-favoredness (hard'fa 4 vord-nes), . 
Coarseness of features. 
y Ssii)e"",*tr U of'Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Babylon, hard-featured (hard'te'turd), a. Havingcoarse 
It is a well-known fact among those who are in the hab- features, 
it of hardening, that the hardening of steel increases its hard-fern (hard fern), n. 
Hard aport ! See aport. Hard by, near ; close. Hard 
hit. See Ati, . Hard run. Same as Aard up (a). 
Hard up, ill-provided, (a) In want of money ; needy ; 
without resources : used absolutely. [Colloq.] 
He returned, and being hard up, as we say, took it into 
his head to break a shop-window at Liverpool, and take 
out some trumpery trinket stuff. 
T. Hook, The Sutherlands. 
Often he was "hard up," and had to work as a dock la- 
bourer. Westminster Ren., CXXVI1I. 907. 
(6) Ill-provided with : followed by for : as, hard up for 
amusement. [Colloq.] (c) Naut., pushed close up or as 
far as possible : said of the helm when put completely over 
to one side so as to turn the ship's head away from the 
wind. Hold hard ! See AoZdi. It shall go hard but. 
See go. to bear one hard*. See beari. To be hard 
put to It, to be in great perplexity or difficulty. 
The figures and letters were so mingled together that 
one would think the coiner was hard put to it on what 
part of the money to bestow the several words of his in- 
scription. Addition, Ancient Medals, iii. 
To die hard. See .rffei. To go hard with. See go. 
hardt, v. t. [ME. harden (pres. ind. harde), < 
AS. heardian, become hard, make hard, = D. 
harden, make hard, = OHG. "hartjan, hartan, 
liertanj MHG. herten, G. harten = Dan. harrde 
= Sw. harda, make hard; from the adj. Cf. 
harden 1 .'] To make hard ; harden. 
They speke of sondry harding of metal, 
And speke of medicyues therwithal, 
And how and whan it sholde 'yharded be. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 237. 
hard-a-keepingt, a. Hard to keep or observe. 
[Bare.] 
Having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath, 
Study to break it and not break my troth. harden 2 !, a. and re. 
o/t'tK. , L. L. Li., LI. ._'. . i 
dimensions. 
0. Ede, in Campin's Mechanical Engineering, p. 363. 
Born 
To labour and the mattock-Aantoi'd hand. 
Tennyson, Maud, xviii. 
2. To dry (clothes) by airing. [Prov. Eng.] 
3. To make hard or harder in feeling ; strength- 
A fern of the genus 
Lomaria, particularly L. Spicant. In Austra- 
lia, where the genus is abundant, the name is 
given to all the species of Lomaria. See Lo- 
maria. 
. 
en or confirm with respect to any element of 
j d t th d th of aboutone 
P 
en or conrm wi respec o any eemen o . Mh f ineh and well troweled . 
had-fish ( hfish) ,, Salted and dried cod, 
indifferent, unfeeling, obstinate, wicked, etc. 
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they 
were not hers. Job xxxix. IB. 
Some had in courts been great, and, thrown from thence, 
Like fiends, were harden'd in impenitence. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit, i. 145. 
ling, etc. [Scotch.] 
hard-fisted (hard'fis"ted), a. 1. Having hard 
or strong hands, as a laborer. 2. Close-fisted ; 
covetous. 
None are so gripple and hard-fisted as the childless. 
Bp. Hall, Balm of Gilead. 
Though he became so far hardened in profligacy that he 
could "take pleasure in the vileness of his companions," hard-foucht (hard'fat), a. Vigorously con- 
yet the sense of right and wrong was not extinguished in TT* lL , . T, nrr i fnunht battle 
him. Southey, Buuyan, p. 12. ea as i a n< 
Hardened glass. See glass. To harden the neck. Hard-fought field. Fanthawe, Lord Stratford's TriaL 
Seen*.=Syn. To accustom, discipline, train, toughen, nar( j_g ot (hard'got), a. Obtained with diffl- 
habitnate, steel, brace, nerve. ^SS B 
culty. 
With a tedious war, and almost endless toils, 
Throughout his troubled reign here held his hard-got 
spoils. Drayton, Polyolbion, xvii. 114. 
hard-grained (hard'grand), a. 1. Having a 
close, firm grain. 2. Unattractive; not amia- 
ble or inviting. 
II. intrans. 1. To become hard or more hard; 
acquire solidity or compactness: as, mortar 
hardens in drying. 
That we might . . . watch 
The sandy footprint harden into stone. 
Tennyson, Princess, iii. 
Old instincts hardening to new beliefs. 
Lowell, Villa Franca. 
2. To become inured or toughened ; especially, 
to become unfeeling. 
And now his heart 
Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, 
Glories. Milton, P. L., i. 672. 
3. To rise in price; grow dear: as, the market 
hardens. 
The precious metals had again hardened in value. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 410. 
hard-bake (hard'bak), re. A sweetmeat made of 
boiled brown sugar or treacle with blanched 
almonds, and flavored with the juice of lemons, 
oranges, or the like : a kind of taffy. 
The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public 
[Also harden; < ME. *her- 
den, < hardes, herdes, hards : see liards and -ere 2 .] 
I. a. Of hards or inferior flax. 
II. n. Hards or inferior flax. Dames. 
A shirt he had made of coarse harden, 
A collar-band not worth a farthing. 
T. Ward, England's Reformation, p. 235. 
hardbeam (liard'bem), n. Same as hornbeam. 
hardbill (hard'bil), n. A grosbeak; a bird of 
Swainson's subfamily Coccothraustina. 
hard-bitted, hard-bitten (hard'bit'ed, -bit"n), 
a. [Prop. , in this sense, only hard-bitted; (.hard 
+ bifl, n., + -ed 2 .] Hard to control by the bit, 
as a horse; hard-mouthed; hence, obstinate; 
heady; unyielding. 
berg, sister of Baron Hiigel, an eminent Ger- 
man traveler.] A genus of Australian herbs 
or woody climbers, belonging to the natural or- 
der Leguminosai, tribe Phaseoleoe, distinguished 
botanically by the strophiolate seeds, small vio- 
let flowers, very short calyx-teeth, and a corol- 
la the keel of which is shorter than its wings. 
The genus consists of 3 species, which, from the profusion 
The hard-grain'd Muses of the cube and square. 
Tennyton, Princess, Prol. 
hard-grass (hard'gras), n. A coarse dry grass of 
some one of several genera, as Ophiurvs, Rott- 
beellia, and Schlerochloa, and one of some species 
of Triticum; also, occasionally, the orchard- 
grass, Dactylis glomerata. 
hardhack (hard'hak), n. A low shrub, Spira-a 
tomentosa, with woolly leaves and pods, and 
dense terminal panicles of rose-colored or white 
flowers. Also called steeplebtish. It is common in 
the northeastern United States, especially in New England, 
and is said to have considerable medicinal value as an as- 
tringent. 
Our narrow New England lanes, . . . where no better 
flowers are to be gathered than golden-rod and hardhack. 
Lowell, quoted in De Vere's Americanisms, p. 405. 
hard-handed(hard'han"ded),o. [=Dan. haard- 
haindet = Sw. hdrdhand.'] 1. Having hands 
hardened by toil. 
Hard-handed men, that work in Athens here, 
Which never labour'd in their minds till now. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 
2. Practising severity; ruling with a strong 
hand. 
The easy or hard-handed monarchies, the domestic or 
foreign tyrannies. Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
They looked such hard-bitten, wiry, whiskered fellows, of theh- flowers make excellent greenhouse-plants. As hardly (hard'ha), II. The plant Hypericiim 
lat their vounff adversaries felt rather desoondine as to such, H. nwnophyUa, a hardy evergreen twiner, is tne fa t- ,.(,,,., ~T,~ rt f 4-v,~ Cf .TAhn's-wnrts. with 
that their young adversaries felt rather desponding as to 
the result of the morrow's match. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Kugby, ii. 8. 
Boiled so long as 
hard-boiled (hiird'boild), a. 
to be hard : said of eggs. 
hard-bound (hard'bound), a. 1. Fast or tight; hardener (hard'ner),n. One who or that which 
stiff and slow in action; costive. makes hard or more firm and compact ; specifi- 
Just writes to make his barrenness appear, cally, one who brings cutting instruments or 
And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year. tools up to the required temper ; a temperer. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 182. hardening-kiln (hard'niug-kil), . A kiln in 
2. Constipated : said of the bowels. [Colloq.] which, in the transfer printing process, unfin- 
tetrapterum, one of the St. John's-worts, with 
flowers in racemes. The spindle-shaped root of these hard and tough wing-angled stems. [Eng.] 
plants is called by the inhabitants sarsaparilla, and used hardhead (hard'hed), w. It. Clash or collision 
by the gold-miners as a substitute for it : hence the other "ff fi U Tiri onntost 
common name of spurious sarsaparilla. - st> 
I have been at hardhead with your butting citizens ; I 
have routed your herd, I have dispersed them. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar. 
2. A small billon or copper coin of Scotland, 
officially known as the lion. It was current in the 
sixteenth century under Mary and James VI., and was 
worth Ijd. or 2d. English. See cut on following page. 
