Hard(adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
Hard(adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
Hard(adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
Hard(adv.) So as to raise difficulties.
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.
Hard(adv.) Close or near.
Hard(n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
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.
Hard(superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
Hard(superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Hard(superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
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.
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.
Hard(superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
Hard(superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
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.
Hard(superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
Hard(superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Hard(superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
Hard(v. t.) To harden; to make hard.
Hardly(adv.) In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Hardly(adv.) Unwillingly; grudgingly.
Hardly(adv.) Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
Hardly(adv.) Severely; harshly; roughly.
Hardly(adv.) Confidently; hardily.
Hardly(adv.) Certainly; surely; indeed.
Hardness(n.) The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Hardness(n.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
Hardness(n.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.
Hards(n. pl.) The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
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