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Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh. [Obs.] Johnson.

described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.

A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

ees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. "Obduracy and persistency." Shak. The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. South.

Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth Shak.…

A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. [Obs.]

To harden. [Obs.] Milton.

Obdurate; hard. [Obs.] This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured. Milton.

Hardness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.

Hardness of heart; obduracy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights. Shak. Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured. Shak. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this. Wake. And seest…

Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.

Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.

To incrust; to harden. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

r own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Josh. xi. 20.

To displease; to make angry; to affront. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Prov. xviii. 19.