Part 715

Hard"-fa`vored (h‰rd"f`vrd), a. Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.

Hard"-fa`vored*ness, n. Coarseness of features.

Hard"-fea`tured (-f`trd; 135), a. Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

Hard"fern` (-frn`), n. (Bot.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

Hard"-fist`ed (-fst`d), a. 1. Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.

2. Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. Bp. Hall.

Hard"-fought` (-ft`), a. Vigorously contested; as, a hard-fought battle.

Hard" grass` (grs`). (Bot.) A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbˆllia incurvata, and to the species of ∆gilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

Hard"hack` (-hk`), n. (Bot.) A very astringent shrub (SpirÊa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa is also called by this name.

Hard"-hand`ed (-hnd`d), a. Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.

Hard-handed men that work in Athens here.

Shak.

Hard"head` (-hd`), n. 1. Clash or collision of heads in contest. Dryden.

2. (Zoˆl.) (a) The menhaden. See Menhaden. [Local, U. S.] (b) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe. (c) A California salmon; the steelhead. (d) The gray whale. See Gray whale, under Gray. (e) A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).

Hard"-head`ed, a. Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. -- Hard"-head`ed*ness, n.

Hard"-heart`ed (-h‰rt`d), a. Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. -- Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Har"di*head (h‰r"d*hd), n. Hardihood. [Obs.]

Har"di*hood (-hd), n. [Hardy + -hood.] Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

A bound of graceful hardihood.

Wordsworth.

It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.

Buckminster.

Syn. -- Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity; effrontery; impudence.

Har"di*ly, adv. 1. Same as Hardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. Wyclif.

Har"di*ment (-ment), n. [OF. hardement. See Hardy.] Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.]

Changing hardiment with great Glendower.

Shak.