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Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster.

Hardihood; boldness; 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.

Firmly twisted in spinning.

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

Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor.

ale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant. His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay.

Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.

To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.

ing the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense. I never saw the heavens so dim by day. Shak. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heave…

The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold. Chaucer. Thou should'st lay hold upon him. B. Jonson. My soul took hold on thee. Addison. T…

To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.

Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.

have the honor, to have the privilege or distinction. -- Word of honor, an engagement confirmed by a pledge of honor.

A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in who…

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.

limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, under water. -- Hydraulic main (Gas Works), a horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia.…

adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.