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o pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.

Coarseness of features.

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

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

contested; as, a hard-fought battle.

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

Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. -- Hard"-head`ed*ness, n.

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. -- Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.

Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. [Collog., U.S.]

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. Burke.

A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.

A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.