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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

... their belongings, the wealthiest and most influential citizens. Never having had to struggle amid such hardships and deprivations, their sufferings were more acute than those of the poorer and more hardy people; and it did not require any great foresight to know that they were physically incapable of such labor if prolonged, nor to predict their early sickness and death if they were not properly housed and fed. As the salvation of the town depended ...

— A Story of the Red Cross - Glimpses of Field Work • Clara Barton

... Mr. Blipper and his partner, a man named Hardy, quarreling to-day. First it started over bad business on account of the rain and nobody riding on the merry-go-round because the balloon was going up. Then I heard my name mentioned and the quarrel grew worse. Mr. Hardy said Mr. Blipper didn't have any right ...

— The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair • Laura Lee Hope

... generous and brave. Their pleasures and pastimes were those usual in frontier settlements. They were hardy, and well versed in woodcraft. They aided each other, and were all in all a noble class of people, possessing many virtues and few faults. The girls were educated by their mothers to work, and had to work. It was then a disgrace for a young woman not to know how to take the ...

— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee

... the mouth of the Fish creek, on the south side. The village of Schuylerville is just across the stream, on the north side. On the plain, in front of the village of Schuylerville, was a regular quadrangular fortification, with bastions, called Fort Hardy. It was erected in 1756, and named in honor of the governor of New York ...

— The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - With Numerous Illustrative Notes • Abraham Tomlinson

... sleepless waves sang loudly. In the churchyard, growing gradually dim and ethereal, were laid many bodies from which the white vampires of the main had sucked out the souls. Here mouldered fisher lads, who had whistled over the nets, and dreamed rough dreams of winning island girls and breeding hardy children. Here reposed old limbs of salty mariners, who had for so long defied the ocean that when they knew themselves taken at the last, they turned their rugged faces down to their enemy with a stony and an ironic wonder. And here, too, among these cast-up bodies of the drowned, ...

— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens

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