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

Firmly twisted in spinning.

See Jurel.

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

One who makes, or deals in, hardware.

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

To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. [Obs.] Locke.

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); -- so named from the shape of its leaves. Dr. Prior.

A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.

A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. Hare's-tail grass (Bot.), a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's tail.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also hairbell.] E'en the light harebell raised its head. Sir W. Scott .

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]

A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.

See Harrier. A. Chalmers.

The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.

A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped`, a.

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

Herring-shaped.

The snowy owl.