Christmas (n.) An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. |
Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries |
Fern (adv.) Long ago. |
Fern (a.) Ancient |
Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
Half-sword (n.) Half the length of a sword |
Hard (superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts |
Hard (superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to accomplish |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to resist or control |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to please or influence |
Hard (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste |
Hard (superl.) Rough |
Hard (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance |
Hard (superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance |
Hard (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures |
Hard (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. |
Hard (adv.) With pressure |
Hard (adv.) With difficulty |
Hard (adv.) Uneasily |
Hard (adv.) So as to raise difficulties. |
Hard (adv.) With tension or strain of the powers |
Hard (adv.) Close or near. |
Hard (v. t.) To harden |
Hard (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp. |
Hard-favored (a.) Hard-featured |
Hard-featured (a.) Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. |
Hard-fisted (a.) Having hard or strong hands |
Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted |
Hard-fought (a. Vigorously) contested |
Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. |
Hard-handed (a.) Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. |
Hard-headed (a.) Having sound judgment |
Hard-hearted (a.) Unsympathetic |
Hard-labored (a.) Wrought with severe labor |
Hard-mouthed (a.) Not sensible to the bit |
Hard-shell (a.) Unyielding |
Hard-tack (n.) A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. |
Hard-visaged (a.) Of a harsh or stern countenance |
Hare's-foot fern () A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes |
Hedge (v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge |
Hedge (v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier |
Hedge (v. t.) To surround for defense |
Hedge (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape. |
Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge |
Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on. |
Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite. |
Holly (adv.) Wholly. |