Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HARD-HEART'ED-LY, adv.

In a hard-hearted manner.

HARD-HEART'ED-NESS, n.

Want of feeling or tenderness; cruelty; inhumanity. South.

HARD'I-EST, a.

Most hardy. Baxter.

HARD'I-HOOD, n. [See Hardy and Hood.]

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; dauntless bravery; intrepidity. Milton. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster. Hardihead and Hardiment, in the sense of hardihood, are obsolete. Spenser. Fairfax.

HARD'I-LY, adv.

1. With great boldness; stoutly. Scott.
2. With hardship; not tenderly. Goldsmith.

HARD'I-NESS, n. [Fr. hardiesse. See Hardy.]

1. Boldness; firm courage; intrepidity; stoutness; bravery; applied to the mind, it is synonymous with hardihood.
2. Firmness of body derived from laborious exercises.
3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.
4. Excess of confidence; assurance; effrontery.

HARD-LA'BOR-ED, a.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied; as, a hard-labored poem. Swift.

HARD'LY, adv. [See Hard.]

1. With difficulty; with great labor. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden.
2. Scarcely; barely; almost not. Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. South.
3. Not quite or wholly. The object is so distant we can hardly see it. The veal is hardly done. The writing is hardly completed.
4. Grudgingly, as an injury. Shak.
5. Severely; unfavorably; as, to think hardly of public measures.
6. Rigorously; oppressively. The prisoners were hardly used or treated. Addison. Swift.
7. Unwelcomely; harshly. Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man. Locke.
8. Coarsely; roughly; not softly. Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed; / So hardly lodged. Dryden.

HARD'-MOUTH-ED, a.

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse. Dryden.

HARD'NESS, n. [See Hard.]

1. Firmness; close union of the component parts; compactness; solidity; the quality of bodies which resists impression; opposed to softness and fluidity.
2. Difficulty to be understood. Shak.
3. Difficulty to be executed or accomplished; as, the hardness of an enterprise. Sidney.
4. Scarcity; penury; difficulty of obtaining money; as, the hardness of the times. Swift. as, hardness of heart.
5. Obduracy; impenitence; confirmed state of wickedness; as, hardness of heart.
6. Coarseness of features; harshness of look; as, hardness of favor. Ray.
7. Severity of cold; rigor; as, the hardness of winter.
8. Cruelty of temper; savageness; harshness. The blame / May hang upon your hardness. Shak.
9. Stiffness; harshness; roughness; as, the hardnesses of sculpture. Dryden.
10. Closeness; niggardliness; stinginess. Johnson.
11. Hardship; severe labor, trials or sufferings. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. ii.

HARD'NIB-BED, a.

Having a hard nib or point.

HAR'DOCK, n.

Probably hoardock, dock with whitish leaves. Shak.

HARDS, n.

The refuse or coarse part of flax; tow.

HARD'SHIP, n.

1. Toil; fatigue; severe labor or want; as, whatever oppresses the body.
2. Injury; oppression; injustice. Swift.

HARD'VIS-AG-ED, a.

Having coarse features; of a harsh countenance. Burke.

HARD'WARE, n.

Wares made of iron or other metal, as, pots, kettles, saws, knives, &c.

HARD'WARE-MAN, n.

A maker or seller of hardwares. Swift.

HARD-WON, a.

Won with difficulty. Scott.

HARD-WORK-ING, a.

Laboring hard.

HARD'Y, a. [Fr. hardi; Norm. hardy; Arm. hardiz, hardih; It. ardire, to dare, and boldness, assurance. The sense is shooting or advancing forward.]

1. Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid. Who is hardy enough to encounter contempt?
2. Strong; firm; compact. An unwholesome blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.
3. Confident; full of assurance; impudent; stubborn to excess.
4. Inured to fatigue; rendered firm by exercise, as a veteran soldier.

HARD'Y, n.

An iron-smith's tool.

HARE, n. [Sax. hara; Dan. and Sw. hare.]

1. A quadruped of the genus Lepus, with long ears, a short tail, soft hair, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, often hunted for sport or for its flesh, which is excellent food. It moves by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
2. A constellation. Creech.

HARE, v.t. [Norm. harer, harier, to stir up or provoke.]

To fright, or to excite, tease and harass, or worry. [Not used. See Harry.] Locke.

HARE'BELL, n.

A plant of the genus Hyacinthus, with campaniform or bell-shaped flowers. Fam of Plants.

HARE'-BRAIN-ED, a. [hare and brain.]

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. Bacon.