h a n 
harder than even'the marble itf^lf. Dryden.^ Not plenti¬ 
ful; not profperous.'—There are bonfires decreed ; and, 
if the times had not been hard, my billet fiiould have 
burnt too. Dryden. —Avaricious ; faultily (paring. 
HARD, advfhardo, old Germ.] Olofe ; near; often 
with by. —Abimelech went hard unto the door of the 
tower, to burn it with fire. Judges . 
Hard by a cottage chimney fmokes. 
From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton . 
Diligently; laborieufly; inceflaotly; vehemently; ear- 
jieftly; importunately.—An ant works as hard as a man 
who fhould carry a very heavy load every day four 
leagues. Addifon. 
Geneura rofe in his defence, 
And pray’d fo hard for mercy from the prince, 
That to his queen the king th’ offender gave. Dryden. 
Uneafily; vexatioufly.—When a man’s fervantfhall play 
the cur with him, look you, it goes hard. Shakefpeare .— 
Difirefsfully ; fo as to raife difficulty.—The queflion is 
hard fet, and we have reafon to doubt. Brown. —Fall; 
nimbly ; vehemently.—The wolves fcampered away as 
hard as they could.drive. L’Ejlrange .—With difficulty; 
in a manner requiring labour.—Solid bodies foreftiow 
rain, as boxes and pegs of wood when they draw and 
•vj'mkhard. Bacon. —Tempeftuoufly ; boifteroufly.—When 
the North wind blows hard ; and it rains fadly, none but 
fools fit down in it and cry. Taylor. 
HARD'-BEAM TREE. See Carpinus. 
HARD'-BOUND, adj. Coftive : 
He writes to make his barrennefs appear, 
And drains from hard-boundbvams eight lines a-year. Pope. 
HARD-FA'VOURED, f. Coarfe of feature; harffi 
of countenance.—When Vulcan came into the world, 
lie was fo hard-favoured that his parents frowned on him. 
Dryden. 
When the blaft of war blows in your ears, 
Stiffen the finews, fummon up the blood, 
Difguife fair Nature with hard-favour'd looks, 
Then lelid the eye a terrible afpetd. Shakefpeare, 
HARD'-GRASS, f. in botany. See Dactylis. 
HARD-HAN'DED, adj. Coarfe; mechanic; one 
that has lianas hard with labour : 
.— -Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, 
Which never labour’d in their minds till now. Shakefp. 
HARD'-HEAD, f. Claffi of heads; manner of fight¬ 
ing in which the combatants daffi their heads together. 
.—I have been at hard-head with your butting citizens ; 
I have roufed your herd, I have difperfed them. Dryden. 
FfARD'-HEART'ED, adj. Cruel ; inexorable; mer- 
cilefs; pitilefs; barbarous; inhuman; favage; un- 
compaffionate.— Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the 
world. Shakefpeare. - 
Can you be fo hard-hearted to deftroy 
My ripening hopes, that are fo near to joy ? Dryden. 
HARD'-HEART'EDNESS,/ Cruelty'; wantoften- 
dernefs; want of compaffion.—How black and bafe a 
vice ingratitude is, may be feen in thofe vices which it 
is always in combination With, pride and hard-heartednefs, 
or want of compailion. South. 
HARD'-LA'BOURED, adj. Elaborate; ftudied ; di¬ 
ligently wroughti 
How cheerfully the hawkers cry 
A fatire, and the gentry buy ! 
While my hard-labour'd poem pines, 
Unfold upon the printer’s lines. Swift. 
HARD'-MOUTHED, adj. Difobedient to the rein ; 
not fenfible of the bit: 
’Tis time my kard-mouth'd courfers to controul. 
Apt to run riot, and tranfgrefs the goal. Dryden, 
HARD MEAT, f For horfes. hay and oats. 
Vql.IX. No.573. 
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HARDALE'E, adv. A fea term, in a fituation clofc 
to the fide of the fliip. 
HAR'DAN, a river of Germany, in Lower'Saxony, 
which runs into the Ilmenau, near Ultzan, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Luneburg-Zell. 
HAR'DANGER, mountains in Norway, in the pro¬ 
vince of Bergen ; fixty miles eaft of Bergen. 
HAR'DANGER, (Gulf of), a bay of the North Sea, 
on the coaft of Norway. Lat. 59. 50. N. Ion. 6. E. 
Greenwich. 
HARDAWEA'THER, adv. Clofe to the weather 
fide of the fliip. 
HARD'BERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : ten miles fouth-feuth-weft of Fridberg, and fifty-, 
two foutli ofVienna. Lat.47. 22. N. Ion. 33.54. E. Ferro. 
HAR'DECKj a town of Hungary: fourteen miles 
north-eaft of Rofenburg. 
HAK'DECK, ui IIardecc, a town of Germany, in 
the archduchy of Auftria : feven miles weft of Znaym, 
and forty north-north-weft of Vienna. Lat. 48. 43. N, 
Ion. 33. 35. E. Ferro. 
HAR'DEGSEN, a town of Germany, with a confi- 
derable manufa&ure of leather: ten miles north-weft of 
Gottingen. 
HAR'DEHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Weftphalia, and biftropric of Paderborn: five 
miles north-weft of Warburg. 
To HAR'DEN, v. a. To grow hard.—The powder of 
loadftone and flint, by the addition of whites of eggs 
and gum-dragon, made into parte, will in a few days 
harden to the hardnefs of a ftone. Bacon. 
To HAR'DEN, v. a. To make hard ; to indurate ; 
Sure he, who firft the ( paffage try’d, 
In harden'd oak. his heart did hide. 
And ribs of iron arm’d his fide. Dryden. 
To confirm in effrontery ; to make impudent.—To con¬ 
firm in wickednefs ; to make obdurate.—Exhort one an¬ 
other daily, left any of you be hardened through the de- 
ceitfulnefs of fin. Hebrews. —He ftiffened his neck, and 
harcknedh is heart from turning unto the Lord. 2 Chron. 
—To make infenfible ; to ftupify.—Religion fets before 
us not the example of a ftupid Stoic, who had by ob'fti- 
nate principles hardened himfelf againft all fenfe of pain ; 
but an example of a man like ourfelves, that had a ten¬ 
der fenfe of the leaft buffering, and yet patiently endured 
the greateft. Ti/lotfon. —To make firm ; to endue with 
conftancy.—Then fhall I have comfort > yea, I would 
harden myfelf in borrow. Job. —One raifes the foul and 
hardens it to virtue ; the other foftens it again, and un¬ 
bends it into vice. Dryden. 
HAR'DEN BERG, a town of Germany, in the grafid 
duchy of Berg : thirteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Duffel- 
dorp. Lat. 31.19. N. Ion. 24. 29. E. Ferro. 
HAR'DENBERG, or Hardenburg, a town of 
Overiffel, fituated on the Vecht, firft furrounded with 
walls in the year 1355, by J°^ n d’Arkel, bifhop of 
'Utrecht: ten miles fouth-weft of Covorden. 
HAR'DfcNER,/. One that makes any tiling hard. 
HARD'ENING, / The aft of making hard.—To 
harden iron into fteel, fee the article Case Harden¬ 
ing, vol. iii. p. 867. 
H AR'DENS, a town of United America, intheftateof 
Kentucky: eighty two miles weff-fouth-iveft of Frankfort. 
HAR'DERWY'CK, a feaport town of Guelde: land, 
fituated on the Zuyder See. It was only a village be¬ 
fore 1229, when Otlio, furnamed the Cripple, furrounded 
it with walls. It was formerly confidered as one of the 
Hanfe-towns. In 1503, the whole was burnt down, 
except five or fix liouies; but was boon afterwards re¬ 
built, and is now a populous town, with an univerfity, 
founded in 1618. It had five gates, three towards the 
land, and two towards the fea. In 1508, Charles d’Eg- 
mont, the laft duke of Guelders, laid fiege to it, but 
was at that time obliged to retire. Three years after, 
he took it by furprife. 1111532, it was retaken by comte 
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