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Mouthed
·adj Furnished with a mouth.
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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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Bell-mouthed
·adj Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.
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Black-mouthed
·adj Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
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Deep-mouthed
·adj Having a loud and sonorous voice.
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Flap-mouthed
·adj Having broad, hangling lips.
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Foul-mouthed
·adj Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
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Honey-mouthed
·adj Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.
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Hot-mouthed
·adj <<Headstrong>>.
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Loud-mouthed
·adj Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
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Meal-mouthed
·adj ·see Mealy-mouthed.
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Mealy-mouthed
·adj Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the tr...
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Open-mouthed
·adj Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous.
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Pouch-mouthed
·adj Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.
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Tut-mouthed
·adj Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous.
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foul-mouthed
Abusive.
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mealy-mouthed
Over-modest or backward in speech.
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sparrow-mouthed
Wide-mouthed, like the mouth of a sparrow: it is said of such persons, that they do not hold their m...
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flopper -mouthed
blubber-lipped. Lane.
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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-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-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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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.
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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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