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The quality or state of being handy.

dness; 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.

A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. [U. S.]

The quality of being heady.

That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.

Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called hæmolutein.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4.

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

A base, menial wretch. -- a.

Of or pertaining to the leeches.

An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.

Like or pertaining to the swallows.

house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.

The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] Shak. Holding note (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.

The act of one who hounds.

A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened. "Ill-boding stars." Shak.