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<blockquote>And prayed so <b>hard</b> for mercy from the prince. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>My father Is <b>hard</b> at study; pray now, rest yourself. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>With difficulty; <as>as, the vehicle moves <ex>hard</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.</def>

<i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>So as to raise difficulties. " The guestion is <i>hard</i> set".</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; <as>as, to press, to blow, to rain <ex>hard</ex></as>; hence, rapidly; <as>as, to run <ex>hard</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Close or near.</def>

<blockquote>Whose house joined <b>hard</b> to the synagogue. <i>Acts xviii.7.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>Hard by</col>, <col>near by</col></mcol><cd>; close at hand; not far off.</cd> "<i>Hard by<i> a cottage chimney smokes." <i>Milton</i>. -- <mcol><col>Hard pushed</col>, <col>Hard run</col><mcol>, <cd>greatly pressed; <as>as, he was <ex>hard pushed</ex> or <ex>hard run</ex> for time, money, etc</as>.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>Hard up</col>, <cd>closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; <as>as, <ex>hard up<ex> for amusements</as>.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark></cs>

<note>&hand; <i>Hard</i> in nautical language is often joined to words of command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should be carried out with the utmost energy, or that the helm should be put, in the direction indicated, to the extreme limit, as, <i>Hard aport</i>! <i>Hard astarboard</i>! <i>Hard alee</i>! <i>Hard aweather up</i>! <i>Hard</i> is also often used in composition with a participle; as, <i>hard</i>-baked; <i>hard</i>-earned; <i>hard</i>-working; <i>hard</i>-won.</note>

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<hw>Hard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To harden; to make hard.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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<hw>Hard</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A ford or passage across a river or swamp.</def>

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<hw>Hard"bake`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.</def>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

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<hw>Hard"beam`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A tree of the genus <spn>Carpinus</spn>, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.</def>

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<hw>Hard"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hardened</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hardening</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>hardnen</ets>, <ets>hardenen</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; <as>as, to <ex>harden</ex> clay or iron</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.</def> "<i>Harden</i> not your heart."

<i>Ps. xcv. 8.</i>

<blockquote>I would <b>harden</b> myself in sorrow. <i>Job vi. 10.</i></blockquote>

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