Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 10
Harborer (n.) One who, or that which, harbors.
Harborless (a.) Without a harbor; shelterless.
Harbor master () An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
Harborough (n.) Alt. of Harbrough.
Harbrough (n.) A shelter. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Harborous (a.) Hospitable. [Obs.]
Harbour (n.) [ C or U ] (UK US harbor) (B1) 港口；港灣 An area of water next to the coast, often protected from the sea by a thick wall, where ships and boats can shelter.
// Our hotel room overlooked a pretty little fishing harbour.
Compare: Dock
Dock (n.) (For ships) (C1) [ C ] 泊位；船塢 An area of water in a port that can be closed off and that is used for putting goods onto and taking them off ships or repairing ships.
Docks (n. pl.) 碼頭區（包括船塢及周圍建築） A group of these areas of water in a port and the buildings around them.
// The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.
Docks (n. pl.) [ C ] (US) 碼頭 A long structure built over water where passengers can get on or off a boat or where goods can be put on and taken off.
Dock (n.) (Law) The dock [ S ] (Mainly UK) 被告席 The place in a criminal law court where the accused person sits or stands during the trial.
// The defendant seemed nervous as he left the dock and stepped up to the witness box.
The company will find itself in the dock (= in court) if it continues to ignore the pollution regulations.
Dock (n.) (Plant) [ C or U ] 酸模（一種生長在如英國等北方國家的寬葉野生植物） A common wild plant with large wide leaves that grows in some northern countries such as Britain.
// Rubbing dock leaves on nettle stings helps to relieve the pain.
Dock (n.) (Equipment) [ C ] A docking station (同 Docking station).
Docking station (n.) [ C ] (Also dock) （電器）擴充基座 A piece of electrical equipment to which another piece of equipment can be connected.
// Put the MP3 player into the docking station to charge it.
Dock (v.) (Remove) [ T ] 克扣，扣發（尤指金錢）To remove part of something.
// As a punishment, the Army docked the soldiers' pay/ wages by 20% and took away their leave.
// The lambs' tails are docked (= cut short) for hygiene reasons.
Dock (v.) (Ship) [ I or T ] （使）靠岸，（使）停泊，（使）進港 If a ship docks, it arrives at a dock and if someone docks a ship, they bring it into a dock.
// Hundreds of people turned up to see the ship dock at the pier.
// The Russians and Americans docked (= joined together in space) (their spacecraft) just after one o'clock this morning.
Harbour (v.) [ T ] (UK US harbor) (Have in mind) 心懷，懷有（想法或感情） To think about or feel something, usually over a long period.
// He's been harbouring a grudge against her ever since his promotion was refused.
// There are those who harbour suspicions about his motives.
// Powell remains non-committal about any political ambitions he may harbour.
Harbour (v.) [ T ] (Hide) 庇護，窩藏，藏匿（罪犯或贓物） To protect someone or something bad, especially by hiding that person or thing when the police are looking for him, her, or it.
// To harbour a criminal.
Hard (a.) 難的，艱苦的，堅硬的，硬的，堅固的，猛烈的，艱難的，結實的，困難的 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.
Hard (a.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
Hard (a.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Hard (a.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
Hard (a.) 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.
Hard (a.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
Hard (a.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
Hard (a.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
Hard (a.) 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.
Hard (a.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
Hard (a.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Hard (a.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
Hard (adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
Hard (adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
Hard (adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
Hard (adv.) So as to raise difficulties.
Hard (adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Hard (adv.) Close or near.
Hard (v. t.) To harden; to make hard.
Hard (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Hardbake (n.) A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.
Hardbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.
Hardened (imp. & p. p.) of Harden.
Hardening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harden.
Harden (v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
Harden (v. t.) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
Harden (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
Harden (v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
Hardened (a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
Hardener (n.) One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
Hardening (n.) Making hard or harder.
Hardening (n.) That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
Harder (n.) A South African mullet, salted for food.
Harderian (a.) A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
Hard-favored (a.) Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
Hardfavoredness (n.) Coarseness of features.
Hard-featured (a.) Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
Hardfern (n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.
Hard-fisted (a.) Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
Hard-fought (a.) (Vigorously) Contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
Hard grass (n.) (Botany) 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 grass (n.) (Botany) Any of several types of coarse grass.
Hardhack (n.) A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.
Hard-handed (a.) Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
Hardhead (n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest.
Hardhead (n.) The menhaden. See Menhaden.
Hardhead (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.
Hardhead (n.) A California salmon; the steelhead.
Hardhead (n.) The gray whale.
Hardhead (n.) A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).
Hard-headed (a.) Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
Hard-hearted (a.) Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
Harddihead (n.) Hardihood.
Harddihood (n.) Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.
Hardily (adv.) Same as Hardly.
Hardily (adv.) Boldly; stoutly; resolutely.
Hardiment (n.) Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.
Hardiness (n.) Capability of endurance.
Hardiness (n.) Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. -- Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. -- Shak.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. -- Clarendon.
Hardiness (n.) Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Hardiness (n.) The property of being strong and healthy in constitution [syn: robustness, hardiness, lustiness, validity].
Hardiness (n.) The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" [syn: boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood] [ant: timidity, timorousness].
Hardish (a.) Somewhat hard.
Hard-labored (a.) Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. -- Swift.
Hardly (adv.) In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Recovering hardly what he lost before. -- Dryden.
Hardly (adv.) Unwillingly; grudgingly.
The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent. -- Milton.
Hardly (adv.) Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. -- South.
Hardly (adv.) Severely; harshly; roughly.
He has in many things been hardly used. --Swift.
Hardly (adv.) Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Hardly (adv.) Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hardly (adv.) Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave" -- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce].
Hardly (adv.) Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: hardly, scarcely].
Hard-mouthed (a.) Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.
Hardness (n.) The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness. -- Sir W. Scott.
Hardness (n.) (Min.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
Hardness (n.) (Chem.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.
Note: This quality is caused by the presence of calcium carbonate, causing temporary hardness which can be removed by boiling, or by calcium sulphate, causing permanent hardness which can not be so removed, but may be improved by the addition of sodium carbonate.
Hardness (n.) The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale [ant: softness].
Hardness (n.) A quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present".
Hardness (n.) Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility].
Hardness (n.) The quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail" [syn: hardness, ruggedness].
Hardness (n.) Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness].
Hardock (n.) [Obs.] See Hordock.
Harlock (n.) Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock. -- Drayton.
Hardpan (n.) The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a.
Hardpan (n.) Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions [syn: caliche, hardpan].
Hard-pressed (a.) 工作繁重的；財政緊迫的 Facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; -- see {distressed} [1].
Syn: distressed, hard put, in a bad way(predicate), in trouble(predicate).
Hard-pressed (a.) Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment"; "found themselves in a bad way financially" [syn: {distressed}, {hard-pressed}, {hard put}, {in a bad way(p)}].
Hard-pressed (a.) 面臨困難的，遭受強大壓力的（尤指缺少時間或錢） Having a lot of difficulties doing something, especially because there is not enough time or money.
// The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
// Because of shortages, the emergency services were hard-pressed to deal with the accident.
// Most people would be hard-pressed (= would find it difficult) to name more than half a dozen members of the government.
Hards (n. pl.) The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
Hard-shell (a.) Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
Hardship (n.) [U] [C] 艱難，困苦 That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. -- Swift.
Hardship (n.) A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {adversity}, {hardship}, {hard knocks}].
Hardship (n.) Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {hardship}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {severity}, {severeness}, {rigorousness}, {rigourousness}].
Hardship (n.) Something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women" -- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life".
Hardship (n.) [ C or U ] (C1) (Something that causes) 艱苦，困難 Difficult or unpleasant conditions of life, or an example of this.
// Economic hardship.
Hardspun (a.) Firmly twisted in spinning.
Hard-tack (n.) A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
Hardtail (n.) See Jurel.
Hard-visaged (a.) Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
Hardware (n.) 硬體，五金器具，零件硬體 Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.
Hardware (n.) [ U ] [ U ] (Computer) (B1) 硬體 The physical and electronic parts of a computer, rather than the instructions it follows.
Compare: Software
Software (n.) [ U ] (A2) （電腦）軟體 The instructions that control what a computer does; computer programs.
// He's written a piece of software that does your taxes for you.
Hardware (n.) [ U ] (Tools) 金屬工具；五金製品 Metal tools, materials, and equipment used in a house or a garden, such as hammers, nails, and screws.
Hardware (n.) [ U ] (Military) (Informal) 重武器；重型裝備 Equipment, especially if it is for military use or if it is heavy.
Hardwaremen (n. pl. ) of Hardwareman.
Hardwareman (n.) One who makes, or deals in, hardware.
Hardy (a.) Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.
Hap helpeth hardy man alway. -- Chaucer.
Hardy (a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
Hardy (a.) Strong; firm; compact.
[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. -- South.
Hardy (a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
Hardy (a.) 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.
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.
Hardy (a.) Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy].
Hardy (a.) Able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures".
Hardy (a.) Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing].
Hardy (n.) United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957) [syn: Hardy, Oliver Hardy].
Hardy (n.) English novelist and poet (1840-1928) [syn: Hardy, Thomas Hardy].
Hare (v. t.) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. [Obs.] -- Locke.
Hare (n.) (Zool.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
Note: The species of hares are numerous. The common European hare is Lepus timidus. The northern or varying hare of America ({Lepus Americanus), and the prairie hare ({Lepus campestris), turn white in winter. In America, the various species of hares are commonly called rabbits.
Hare (n.) (Astron.) A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus.
Hare and hounds, a game played by men and boys, two, called hares, having a few minutes' start, and scattering bits of paper to indicate their course, being chased by the others, called the hounds, through a wide circuit.
Hare kangaroo (Zool.), A small Australian kangaroo ({Lagorchestes Leporoides), resembling the hare in size and color,
Hare's lettuce (Bot.), A plant of the genus Sonchus, or sow thistle; -- so called because hares are said to eat it when fainting with heat. -- Dr. Prior.
Jumping hare. (Zool.) See under Jumping.
Little chief hare, or Crying hare. (Zool.) See Chief hare.
Sea hare. (Zool.) See Aplysia.
Hare (n.) Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes.
Hare (n.) Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food [syn: rabbit, hare].
Hare (v.) Run quickly, like a hare; "He hared down the hill".
Harebell (n.) (Bot.) A small, slender, branching plant ({Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also hairbell.]
E'en the light harebell raised its head. -- Sir W. Scott.
Harebell (n.) Sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta].
Harebell (n.) Perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia].