Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolue; intrepid. Hap helpeth hardy man alway. Chaucer.
Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
Able to withstand the cold of winter.
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
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