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n.
A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
n.
That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
n.
Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
a.
Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.
n.
Hardship; fatigue.
superl.
Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
n.
The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.
n.
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.
v. t.
Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.
n.
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
n.
That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
adv.
In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.
n.
A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.
superl.
Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
v. t.
Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
a.
Firmly twisted in spinning.
n. pl.
The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
a.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
a.
Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship.
v. t.
To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
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