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Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

Foreby :: Foreby (prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.

Hard :: Hard (superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider..

Jig :: "Jig (n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing..

Knicker :: Knicker (n.) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing..

Boil :: Boil (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core..

Obtected :: Obtected (a.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files..

Steelbow Goods :: Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel..

Chard :: Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..

Uneath :: Uneath (adv.) Not easily; hardly; scarcely.

Orchardist :: Orchardist (n.) One who cultivates an orchard.

Usage :: Usage (n.) The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage..

Stone :: Stone (n.) To make like stone; to harden.

Varnish :: Varnish (n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture..

Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish..

Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore..

Testa :: Testa (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

Dys- :: Dys- () An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek / hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-..

Crataegus :: Crataegus (n.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes..

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