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Har"di*ness (-d*ns), n. 1. Capability of endurance.

2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser.

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother.

Shak.

They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.

Clarendon.

3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hard"ish (h‰rd"sh), a. Somewhat hard.

Hard"-la`bored (h‰rd"l`brd), a. Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

Hard"ly (h‰rd"l), adv. [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]

1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

Recovering hardly what he lost before.

Dryden.

2. Unwillingly; grudgingly.

The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent.

Milton.

3. Scarcely; barely; not quite; not wholly.

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.

South.

4. Severely; harshly; roughly.

He has in many things been hardly used.

Swift.

5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] Holland.

6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hard"-mouthed` (-moud`), a. Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.

Hard"ness, n. [AS. heardness.] 1. The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness.

Sir W. Scott.