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[Eng. hardy; -hood.] 1. Boldne , united with firmne and intrepidity; bravery. "The same cool and placid hardihood which distinguished him on fields of battle." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvii. 2. Effrontery; boldne , audacity. "Had the hardihood to displace Jonson." Malone : Life of Dryden. hard-i-lỹ, hard-e-ly, adv . [Eng. hardy ; -ly.] 1. Boldly; with boldne or hardihood. " Hardily he entrede in to Pilat, and axide the body of Jhasu."- Wycliffe : Mark xv. 43. *2. Hardly; with difficulty. *hard-I-ment, s. (Fr.) Courage, hardihood, boldne , bravery. "Now is the time to prove your hardiment !" Words worth: To the Men of Kent. hard-I-ne , *hard-e-ne e, *hard-i-ne e, *hard-y-ne e, s. [Eng. hardy; -ne .] 1. Boldne , hardihood, courage, intrepidity, daring. "Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardne ever Of hardine is mother." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iii. 6. 2. Firmne of body, capability of enduring fatigue, hardship, .; endurance. 3. Effrontery, exce of confidence, hardihood. "Not yet grown to the hardine of avowing their contempt of the king."-Clarendon: Civil Wars , i. 465. *4. Hardship, fatigue. "They are valiant and hardy; great endurers of cold, hunger, and all hardine ."- Spenser : State of Ireland , hard-ish, a. [Eng. hard ; -ish.] Somewhat or moderately hard; tending to hardne . "And for my pillow stuffed with down, The hardish hillocks have supplied my turn." Greene: Alphonsus, iv. hard-lý, adv. [Eng. hard; -ly.] 1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty, with trouble; not easily. "These oracles are hardly [hardily] attained, And hardly understood." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II . , i. 4. 2. With rigor, severity, or harshne ; rigorously, oppre ively. "Many men believed that he was hardly dealt with." Clarendon . 3. Severely, unfavorably, unkindly. "The grieved commons Hardly conceive of me. IMG:content-0980.png:[blocks in formation] 5. Coarsely, roughly; not softly or delicately. "Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed; So hardly lodged." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses i. 6. Scarcely, barely. "An asperity hardly to have been expected from a man of so much sense." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xii. 7. Not quite, scarcely; as, The meat is hardly *8. Confidently, hardily; with confidence or hard i done yet. hood. 9. Grudgingly, reluctantly, unwillingly; with a feeling of ill-will. "If I unwittingly, or in my rage, Have aught committed that was hardly borne." Shakesp.: Richard III ., ii. 1. *10. Exce ively, to exce . "The deceased had been drinking hardly."-London Daily News.