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Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. Shak.

nd to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm. R. H. Dana, Jr.

That we do make our entrance several ways. Shak. But in known images of life I guess The labor greater. Pope.

hen calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.

A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europæus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.

Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood; hæmolysis. -- Hæm`a*to*lyt"ic (#), a.

e marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

s, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. [Written also halbert.]

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence:

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. Jeffry.

An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking. A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for. Locke. I was always r…

Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.

Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. Hard-handed men that work in Athens here. Shak.

To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.

The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Ha…

Mental labor.