HARDY

a. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolue; intrepid. Hap helpeth hardy man alway. Chaucer.

2.
a.

Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.

3.
a.

Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.

4.
a.

Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

5.
a.

Able to withstand the cold of winter.

6.
n.

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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