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One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

Making hard or harder.

A South African mullet, salted for food.

A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

Coarseness of features.

A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

A very astringent shrub (Spiræa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.

Clash or collision of heads in contest. Dryden.

Hardihood. [Obs.]

stancy 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.

Same as Hardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.] Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.

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.

Somewhat hard.

In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden.

The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively. The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness. Sir W. Scott.

See Hordock.

The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a.

The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.