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1: solder that contains copper; melts at a relatively high temperature; used for brazing

1: steel with more than 0.3% carbon

1: cover with asphalt or a similar surface; "hard-surface roads"

1: ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head [syn: {ixodid}]

1: a difficulty that can be overcome with effort; "we had a hard time getting here"; "analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers" [syn: {rough sledding}] 2: a term served in a maximum securi...

1: a time of difficulty

1: of persons; "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please" [syn: {hard-to-please(a)}, {hard to please(p)}]

1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: {impecunious}, {in straitened circumstances(p)}, {penniless}, {penurious}, {pinched}]

1: water that contains salts (as calcium and magnesium ions) that limit the formation of lather with soap

1: wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America [syn: {durum}, {durum wheat},...

1: someone who works as hard as a slave [syn: {slave}, {striver}]

1: (of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules" [syn: {strict}]

1: baked until hard

1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: {hard-boiled}, {pugnacious}]

1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: {hard-bitten}, {pugnacious}] 2: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" [syn: {case-hardened}, {hardened}] 3: (used of e...

1: an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify

1: stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts" [syn: {hardcore}] 2: intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters" [syn: {hardcore}] 3: extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography" ...

1: requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"

1: characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument" [syn: {trenchant}] 2: aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "...

1: firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy" [syn: {hardline}]

1: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not id...

1: having a hearing loss [syn: {hearing-impaired}]

1: an erect penis [syn: {erection}]

1: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering th...

1: Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes [syn: {quahaug}, {quahog}, {round clam}] 2: an edible American clam [syn: {quahog}, {quahaug}...

1: edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell

1: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles [syn: {earthball}, {false truffle}, {puffball}]

1: of persons; "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please" [syn: {hard-to-please(a)}, {hard to please(p)}]

1: having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: {hardbacked}, {hardbound}, {hardcover}] n : a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn: {hardcover}]

1: having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: {hardback}, {hardbound}, {hardcover}]

1: a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds

1: a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics; "they play hardball in the Senate" 2: baseball as distinguished from softball [ant: {softball}]

1: a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin [syn: {chipboard}]

1: having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: {hardbacked}, {hardback}, {hardcover}]

1: stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts" [syn: {hard-core}] 2: intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters" [syn: {hard-core}] 3: extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography...

1: having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: {hardbacked}, {hardback}, {hardbound}] n : a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn: {hardback}]

1: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: {indurate}] [ant: {soften}] 2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn: {indurate}] [ant: {soften}] 3: harden by reheating and cooli...

1: small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia [syn: {genus Hardenbergia}]

1: vigorous climber of the forests of western Australia; grown for their dense racemes of attractive bright rose-purple flowers [syn: {Western Australia coral pea}]

1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" [syn: {case-hardened}, {hard-boiled}] 2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered s...

1: abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue 2: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" [syn: {soli...

1: sclerosis of the arterial walls [syn: {arteriosclerosis}, {arterial sclerosis}, {induration of the arteries}, {coronary-artery disease}]

{hard}

{hard}

1: unwilling to part with money [syn: {closefisted}, {tightfisted}]

1: unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack [syn: {mulish}] 2: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a h...

1: a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized [syn: {lesser knapweed}, {black knapweed}, {Centaurea nigra}]

1: lacking in feeling or pity or warmth [syn: {heartless}] [ant: {softhearted}] 2: devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" [syn: {stonyhearted}, {unfeeling}]

1: an absence of concern for the welfare of others [syn: {heartlessness}, {coldheartedness}]

{hardy}

{hardy}

1: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness" [syn: {boldness}, {daring}] [ant: {timidity}]

1: the property of strong in constitution [syn: {robustness}, {lustiness}]

1: 29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823) [syn: {Warren Harding}, {Warren Gamaliel Harding}, {President Harding}]

1: perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass [syn: {hardinggrass}, {toowomba canary grass}, {Phalaris aquatica}, {Phalaris tuberosa}]

1: perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass [syn: {Harding grass}, {toowomba canary grass}, {Phalaris aquatica}, {Phalaris tuberosa}]

1: firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy" [syn: {hard-line}]

1: a conservative who is uncompromising

1: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she ...

1: very few; "hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous date and year" [syn: {hardly a(a)}]

1: the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale [ant: {softness}] 2: devoid of passion or feeling [syn: {unfeelingness}, {callousness}, {insensib...

1: crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions [syn: {caliche}]

1: yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" [syn: {poor}] 2: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {mar...

1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {adversity}, {hard knocks}] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern w...

1: widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems [syn: {hardstemmed bulrush}, {Scirpus acutus}]

1: widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems [syn: {hardstem bulrush}, {Scirpus acutus}]

1: very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple [syn: {pilot biscuit}, {pilot bread}, {sea biscuit}, {ship biscuit}] 2: a mountain mahogany

1: a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top

1: major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) 2: instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal [syn: {ironware}] 3: (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and ele...

1: error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer

1: a store selling hardware; "in England they call a hardware store and ironmongery" [syn: {ironmongery}]

1: someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger" [syn: {ironmonger}]

1: made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; "hardwood floors" [ant: {softwood}] n : the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)

1: characterized by hard work and perseverance [syn: {industrious}, {tireless}, {untiring}]

1: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: {stalwart}, {s...

1: swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes 2: flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domestica...

1: an outdoor game; the hares start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and the hounds try to catch them before they reach a designated spot [syn: {paper chase}]

1: worshipper of Krishna and member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness 2: a religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful ...

1: small Australian wallaby that resembles a hare and has persistent teeth [syn: {kangaroo hare}]

1: a variety of bristle fern [syn: {Trichomanes boschianum}]

1: either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft gray hairy rootstock

1: sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: {wild hyacinth}, {wood hyacinth}, {bluebell}, {Hyacinthoides nonscripta}, {Scilla nonscripta}] 2: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell...

1: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: {insane}, {mad}]

1: any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel

{haredi}

1: living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household [syn: {harem}, {seraglio}, {serail}]

1: illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040) [syn: {Harold I}, {King Harold I}, {Harold Harefoot}]

1: a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip [syn: {cleft lip}, {cheiloschisis}]

1: living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household [syn: {hareem}, {seraglio}, {serail}]

1: a city in northwestern Somalia

1: English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) [syn: {James Hargreaves}]

1: a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans 2: a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried [syn: {flageolet}]

1: very small and slender green bean [syn: {haricots verts}, {French bean}]

1: very small and slender green bean [syn: {haricot vert}, {French bean}]

1: belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn: {untouchable}]

1: ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society [syn: {harakiri}, {hara-kiri}]

1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: {harken}, {hearken}]

1: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: {return}, {come back}, {recall}]

1: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by ...

1: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by ...

1: an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan [syn: {Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami}, ...

1: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by ...

1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: {hark}, {hearken}]

1: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946) [syn: {Stone}]

1: United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937) [syn: {Harlow}, {Jean Harlow}]

1: a district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto

1: a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

1: a channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx

1: a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) v : variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches"

1: a reddish opal with small patches of brilliant color

1: any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America [syn: {coral snake}, {New World cora...

1: acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: {buffoonery}, {clowning}, {frivolity}, {prank}]

1: English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946) [syn: {Granville-Barker}]

1: a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located

1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn: {prostitute}, {cocotte}, {whore}, {bawd}, {tart}, {cyprian}, {fancy woman}, {working girl}, {sporting lady}, {lady of pleasure}, {woman of ...

1: offering sexual intercourse for pay [syn: {prostitution}, {whoredom}]

1: United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937) [syn: {Jean Harlow}, {Harlean Carpenter}]

1: United States astronomer (1885-1972) [syn: {Shapley}]

1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: {injury}, {hurt}, {trauma}] 2: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: {damage}, {impairment}] 3: the ac...

1: a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter