Harborless
(Har"bor*less), a. Without a harbor; shelterless.
Harbor master
(Har"bor mas`ter) An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting
the use of a harbor.
Harborough
(Har"bor*ough Har"brough) n. [See Harbor.] A shelter. [Obs.]. Spenser.
Harborous
(Har"bor*ous) a. Hospitable. [Obs.]
Hard
(Hard) a. [Compar. Harder (-er); superl. Hardest.] [OE. hard, heard, AS. heard; akin to OS. &
D. hard, G. hart, OHG. herti, harti, Icel. harðr, Dan. haard, Sw. hård, Goth. hardus, Gr. kraty`s
strong, ka`rtos, kra`tos, strength, and also to E. -ard, as in coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat,
democracy; cf. Skr. kratu strength, k&rsdot to do, make. Cf. Hardy.]
1. Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; — applied
to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
2. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
The hard causes they brought unto Moses.
Ex. xviii. 26.
In which are some things hard to be understood.
2 Peter iii. 16. 3. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to
cure.
4. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
The stag was too hard for the horse.
L'Estrange.
A power which will be always too hard for them.
Addison. 5. Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as,
a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
I never could drive a hard bargain.
Burke. 6. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard
master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; harsh; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
Figures harder than even the marble itself.
Dryden. 8. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
9. (Pron.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change
of the organs from one position to another; — said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go,
as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
10. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
11. (Painting) (a) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
(b) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
Hard cancer, Hard case, etc. See under Cancer, Case, etc. — Hard clam, or Hard-shelled clam
(Zoöl.), the quahog. — Hard coal, anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous or soft coal. — Hard
