·adv Close or near.
II. Hard ·adv So as to raise difficulties.
III. Hard ·adv Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
IV. Hard ·noun A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
V. Hard ·adv With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
VI. Hard ·superl Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
VII. Hard ·vt To Harden; to make hard.
VIII. Hard ·superl Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
IX. Hard ·adv With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
X. Hard ·superl Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
XI. Hard ·superl Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
XII. Hard ·superl Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
XIII. Hard ·superl Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
XIV. Hard ·superl Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
XV. Hard ·superl Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
XVI. Hard ·superl Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
XVII. Hard ·adv With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
XVIII. Hard ·superl Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact;
— applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
XIX. Hard ·superl Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
XX. 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.