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

Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell.

Too hardy; overbold.

Having, or consisting of, shards.

A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

lossoming. [Prov. Eng.] All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. T. Hardy.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

A small or medium-sized hardy horse, common in Canada. [Colloq.]

Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.

Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceaæ., natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

small dark-colored plum, generally called damson. -- Damask rose (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa damascena) from Damascus. "Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years." Bacon. -- Damask steel, or Damascus steel, steel of the kind originally made at Damas…

One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

nd ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.] Manly limbs endured with little ease. Spenser.