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 |
Shoulder
(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle |
Shoulder
(n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint |
Shoulder
(n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains |
Shoulder
(n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. |
Shoulder
(n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market |
Shoulder
(n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion. |
Shoulder
(n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc. |
Shoulder
(v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder |
Shoulder
(v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders |
Shoulder-shotten
(a.) Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. |
| over-the-shoulder bombing | a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target |
| hard sell | forceful and insistent advertising |
snub
cut cold shoulder | a refusal to recognize someone you know, the snub was clearly intentional |
hard tick
ixodid | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head |
quahog
quahaug
hard-shell clam
hard clam
round clam
Venus mercenaria
Mercenaria mercenaria | an edible American clam, the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians |
| hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell |
disk drive
disc drive
hard drive
Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
| hard drug | a narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction |
hard hat
tin hat
safety hat | a lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers |
| hard shoulder | a paved strip beside a motorway (for stopping in emergencies) |
shoulder
berm | a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road, the car pulled off onto the shoulder |
| shoulder | the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder, an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform |
| shoulder bag | a large handbag that can be carried by a strap looped over the shoulder |
shoulder board
shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
| shoulder holster | a holster worn over your shoulder so a gun can be concealed under your jacket |
| shoulder pad | protective garment consisting of a hard rounded pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders |
| shoulder patch | patch worn on the shoulder of a military uniform to indicate rank |
| strap shoulder strap | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag |
wood vise
woodworking vise
shoulder vise | a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it |
scapula
shoulder blade
shoulder bone | either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings |
| hard palate | the bony part of the roof of the mouth |
| shoulder | the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm |
shoulder shoulder joint
articulatio humeri | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula |
shoulder girdle
pectoral arch | the bony arch formed by the collarbones and shoulder blades in humans |
| hard line | a firm and uncompromising stance or position, the governor took a hard line on drugs |
| hard copy | (computer science) matter that is held in a computer and is typed or printed on paper, he ran off a hard copy of the report |
| hard news | news that deals with serious topics or events |
| shoulder flash | something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc. |
| hard candy | candy that is brittle, you can break a tooth on that hard candy |
| shoulder | a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg |
picnic ham
picnic shoulder | shoulder of a hog usually smoked |
hard roll
Vienna roll | yeastaised roll with a hard crust |
quahaug
quahog
hard-shell clam
round clam | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells, large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes |
roe
hard roe | fish eggs or egg-filled ovary, having a grainy texture |
| hard sauce | butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings |
hard-boiled egg
hardooked egg | an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify |
liquor
spirits
booze
hard drink
hard liquor
John Barleycorn
strong drink | an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented |
| hard cider | alcoholic drink from fermented cider, `cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage |
| hard core | the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement |
| hard right | the extreme right wing |
construction worker
hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
slave striver
hard worker | someone who works as hard as a slave |
Townes
Charles Townes
Charles Hard Townes | United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (-) |
hard rush
Juncus inflexus | tall rush of temperate regions |
durum
durum wheat
hard wheat
Triticum durum
Triticum turgidum
macaroni wheat | wheat with hard darkolored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta, grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America |
hard beech
Nothofagus truncata | tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood |
earthball
false truffle puffball hard-skinned puffball | any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles |
| hard fern | any of several ferns of the genus Blechnum |
cash
hard cash
hard currency | money in the form of bills or coins, there is a desperate shortage of hard cash |