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One who cultivates an orchard.

To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.

Too hardy; overbold.

A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England. Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings. Shak.

The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard. Red-crested poachard (Zoöl.), an Old World duck (Branta rufina). -- Scaup poachard, the scaup duck. -- Tufted poachard, a scaup duck (Aythya, or Fuligula cristata), native of Europe and Asia.

See Poachard.

A potsherd. [Obs.] Spenser.

Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chi…

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.

Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.

A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden.

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.

Having elytra, as a beetle.

Having, or consisting of, shards.

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast." Macaulay.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.

Like the diamond in hardness or luster.