Definition of hard

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Hard (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

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Hard-visaged :: Hard-visaged (a.) Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..
Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying..
Crapefish :: Crapefish (n.) Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
Rocky :: Rocky (a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom..
Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard covering of an egg.
Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster..
Knobby :: Knobby (a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard..
Impenitence :: Impenitence (n.) The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.
Hardy :: Hardy (a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless..
Hardbeam :: Hardbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam..
Hardened :: Hardened (imp. & p. p.) of Harde.
Pricasour :: Pricasour (n.) A hard rider.
Bigg :: Bigg (n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind..
Clunch :: Clunch (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.
Sardine :: Sardine (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden..
Sonant :: Sonant (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate..
N :: N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation,
Tyrant :: Tyrant (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor..
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