Part 5123

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Boldly; stoutly; resolutely.</def>

<i>Wyclif.</i>

<h1>Hardiment</h1> <Xpage=670>

<hw>Har"di*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>hardement</ets>. See <er>Hardy</er>.]</ety> <def>Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Changing <b>hardiment</b> with great Glendower. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hardiness</h1> <Xpage=670>

<hw>Har"di*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Capability of endurance.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.</def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<blockquote>Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They who were not yet grown to the <b>hardiness</b> of avowing the contempt of the king. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Hardship; fatigue.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Hardish</h1> <Xpage=670>

<hw>Hard"ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Somewhat hard.</def>

<h1>Hard-labored</h1> <Xpage=670>

<hw>Hard"-la`bored</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Hardly</h1> <Xpage=670>

<hw>Hard"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[AS.<ets>heardlice</ets>. See <er>Hand</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.</def>

<blockquote>Recovering <b>hardly</b> what he lost before. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Unwillingly; grudgingly.</def>

<blockquote>The House of Peers gave so <b>hardly</b> thei<?/ consent. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.</def>

<blockquote>Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Severely; harshly; roughly.</def>