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Hard
·adv Close or near.
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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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Headed
·adj Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
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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.
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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-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.
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blowing hard
Said of the wind when it is strong and steady.
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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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Addle-headed
·adj ·Alt. of Addle-pated.
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Beetle-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Bluff-headed
·adj Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
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Buckler-headed
·adj Having a head like a buckler.
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Buffle-headed
·adj Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
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Clear-headed
·adj Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
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Cool-headed
·adj Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.
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Dog-headed
·adj Having a head shaped like that of a dog;
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Dunder-headed
·adj Thick-headed; stupid.
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Feather-headed
·adj Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
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Flat-headed
·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
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Giddy-headed
·adj Thoughtless; unsteady.
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Gross-headed
·adj Thick-skulled; stupid.
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Heavy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Hot-headed
·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
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Idle-headed
·adj Foolish; stupid.
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Janus-headed
·adj Double-headed.
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Light-headed
·adj Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
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Mad-headed
·adj Wild; crack-brained.
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Muddy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Mushroom-headed
·adj Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a m...
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Nail-headed
·adj Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.
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Nott-headed
·adj Having the hair cut close.
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Open-headed
·adj <<Bareheaded>>.
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Pig-headed
·adj Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
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Pudding-headed
·adj <<Stupid>>.
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Puzzle-headed
·adj Having the head full of confused notions.
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Rattle-headed
·adj Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
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Rug-headed
·adj Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
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Sheep-headed
·adj Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
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Shock-headed
·adj Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
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Soft-headed
·adj Weak in intellect.
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Thick-headed
·adj Having a thick skull; stupid.
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Thorn-headed
·adj Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
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Triple-headed
·adj Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
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Wagon-headed
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beetle-headed
Dull, stupid.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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buffle-headed
Confused, stupid.
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chuckle-headed
Stupid, thick-headed.
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hulver-headed
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mutton-headed
Stupid.
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pig-headed
Obstinate.
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totty-headed
Giddy, hare-brained.
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watery-headed
Apt to shed tears.
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dansey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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dausey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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stag-headed
see randle-piked.
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bluff-headed
When a ship has but a small rake forward on, being built with her stem too straight up.
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chowder-headed
Stupid, or batter-brained.
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chuckle-headed
Clownishly stupid; lubberly.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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hard-a-lee
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hard and fast
Said of a ship on shore.
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hard-a-port!
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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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crowdy-headed jock
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pudding-headed fellow
A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
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woolly-headed grass
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an indigenousAustralian grass, Andropogon bombycinus, R. Br.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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hammer-headed shark
The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...
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saucer-headed bolts
Those with very flat heads.
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a hard row to hoe
A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish.
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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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