blowing hard

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• Blowing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Blow>>. II. Blowing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Blow>>. ...

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• blowing

  verbal n. boasting. 1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 387: «A fine art m...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Hard

  ·adv Close or near. II. Hard ·adv So as to raise difficulties. III. Hard ·adv Uneasily; vexatiousl...

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• hard

  Stale beer, nearly sour, is said to be hard. Hard also means severe: as, hard fate, a hard master. ...

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• hard

  A road-path made through mud for landing at. (See ard.) ...

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• dry-blowing

  n. a Western Australian term ingold-mining. 1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5: «When wate...

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• blowing weather

  A nautical term for a continuance of strong gales. (See gale.) ...

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• Hard grass

  ·- A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the spe...

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• Hard steel

  ·add. ·- Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) ca...

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• Hard-favored

  ·adj Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. ...

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• Hard-featured

  ·adj Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. ...

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• Hard-fisted

  ·adj Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. II. Hard-fisted ·adj Having hard or strong hands; as, a har...

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• Hard-fought

  (·adv Vigorously) contested; as, a hard-fought battle. ...

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• Hard-handed

  ·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. ...

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• Hard-headed

  ·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. ...

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• Hard-hearted

  ·adj Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. ...

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• Hard-labored

  ·adj Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. ...

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• Hard-mouthed

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

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• Hard-shell

  ·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. ...

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• Hard-tack

  ·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. ...

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• Hard-visaged

  ·adj Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. ...

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• die hard

  To die hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak. Thi...

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• hard cash

  Silver or gold coin. ...

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• hard drinker

  One who drinks to excess; a drunkard. ...

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• hard money

  A common term for silver and gold, in contradistinction from paper money. ...

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• hard pushed

  To be bard pressed; to be in a difficulty; and especially, as a mercantile phrase, to be hard presse...

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• hard run

  To be hard pressed; and especially to be in want of money. The same as hard pushed. We knew the Tam...

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• hard bargain

  A useless fellow; a skulker. ...

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• hard fish

  A term indiscriminately applied to cod, ling, haddock, torsk, &c., salted and dried. ...

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• hard gale

  When the violence of the wind reduces a ship to be under her storm staysails, No. 10 force. ...

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• hard-head

  The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...

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• hard-horse

  A tyrannical officer. ...

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• hard up

  The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...

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• blowing the grampus

  Throwing water over a sleeper on watch. ...

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• grampus, blowing the

  Sluicing a person with water, especially practised on him who skulks or sleeps on his watch. ...

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• hard-a-lee

  The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...

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• hard and fast

  Said of a ship on shore. ...

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• hard-a-port!

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...

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• hard-a-starboard

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the port-side of the stern-post, whi...

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• hard-a-weather!

  The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever...

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• king's hard bargain

  A useless fellow, who is not worth his hire. ...

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• a hard row to hoe

  A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish. Gentlemen, I ...

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• blowing great guns and small arms

  Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...

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• Three Hard Court, Creechurch Lane

  See Three Herring Court. ...

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• hard at his a-se

  Close after him. ...

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• hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing

  Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...

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