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adjective

Hardy adj. (compar. hardier; superl. hardiest)

Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid. "Hap helpeth hardy man alway."

Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.

Strong; firm; compact. "(A) blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric."

Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

Able to withstand the cold of winter. Note: Plants which are hardy in Virginia may perish in New England. Half-hardy plants are those which are able to withstand mild winters or moderate frosts.

noun

Hardy n. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

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Etymology of 'Hardy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hardy" Quotes from Famous Books

... hut I found they used hollow bones filled with oil for lamps with a cover over them and a wick made of a sea-weed. The squaws would lift the cover and take a sip out of the lamp and then go on with their work. Oil is their favorite drink. The Eskimos are very hardy so far as enduring cold is concerned—I saw an Eskimo bobbing—that is how they fish—hold a fish on a string just under water and as the big fish comes after it they spear it with a spear they hold in their other hand—This ...

— Black Beaver - The Trapper • James Campbell Lewis

... TO GARDEN PLANTS. Containing Descriptions of the Hardiest and most Beautiful Annuals and Biennials, Hardy Herbaceous and Bulbous Perennials, Hardy Water and Bog Plants, Flowering and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Conifers, Hardy Ferns, Hardy Bamboos and other Ornamental Grasses; and also the best kinds of Fruit and ...

— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... acclamations for a moment ceased. A cluster of priestesses going from temple to temple passed that way, and the hardy sailor bared his head as the little procession went by. Two eyes met his, and a feeling as if the dead were there crept through his soul; they were dark unfathomable eyes, and the girl was tall and beautiful, with clustering ...

— Saronia - A Romance of Ancient Ephesus • Richard Short

... for him to notice how the vegetation changed when the limestone was passed, and the white quartz reefs began to seam the slaty sides of the valley like rivers of silver! Not for him to see how, as he went up and on, the hardy Dicksoniae, still nestled in stunted tufts among the more sheltered side gullies, long after her tenderer sister, the queenly Alsophylla had been left behind. He only knew that he was a hunted wild beast, and that his lair was ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... of the most impartial tribunal, and the incalculable advantage of a trial by men of their own condition, feelings, and passions. On the 28th of October, at the Old Bailey, commenced the trial of Hardy, one of the secretaries of the chief treasonable society. The bill brought in by the grand jury had included twelve. The charges were those of "compassing the death of the king, and the subversion of the government." ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various

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