Definition of hard

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Hard (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc..

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Keloid :: Keloid (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin..
Hardfavoredness :: Hardfavoredness (n.) Coarseness of features.
Mustang :: Mustang (n.) The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained..
Ossify :: Ossify (v. t.) Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart..
Pan :: Pan (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard..
Wart :: Wart (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them..
Obfirmation :: Obfirmation (n.) Hardness of heart; obduracy.
Chard :: Chard (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use..
Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..
Tempering :: Tempering (n.) The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished p
Occrustate :: Occrustate (v. t.) To incrust; to harden.
Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest.
Disposition :: Disposition (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice..
Grain :: Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc..
Glaucoma :: Glaucoma (n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball..
Scleroderma :: Scleroderma (n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin..
Obdured :: Obdured (a.) Obdurate; hard.
Wood :: Wood (n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber..
Strontium :: Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3..
Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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