HALFORD
First name HALFORD's origin is English. HALFORD means "from the hall by the ford". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HALFORD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of halford.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with HALFORD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming HALFORD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HALFORD AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH HALFORD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (alford) - Names That Ends with alford:
salford talford alford walfordRhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (lford) - Names That Ends with lford:
watelford wilford telford welford gilford milford tilfordRhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - Names That Ends with ford:
ashford pickford ransford rexford stanford aescford aisford berford biecaford biford blandford blanford burhford clyford guifford haraford harford heanford huxeford jefford linford lynford oxnaford picford raedford rangford redford reeford rockford rufford ryscford salhford stamford steathford stefford twiford weiford wiellaford wylingford watford warford twyford sanford stafford safford rushford ruford radford oxford huxford hartford hanford gifford clifford byford burford bickford beresford hlaford bradford crawford ford hrytherford hwitford langford lawford orford rumford rutherford stratford whitford rayfordRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - Names That Ends with ord:
alvord cord kord raynord rexlord word ordRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rd) - Names That Ends with rd:
ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynardNAMES RHYMING WITH HALFORD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (halfor) - Names That Begins with halfor:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (halfo) - Names That Begins with halfo:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (half) - Names That Begins with half:
halfr halfrid halfrida halfrith halfrytaRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hal) - Names That Begins with hal:
hal halag halah halbart halbert halburt halcyone haldane halden hale halebeorht haleema haleigh halette haley hali halia halifrid halig haligwiella halim halima halimah halimeda halirrhothius halithersis hall hallam halle halley hallfrita hallie halliwell hallwell haloke halomtano halona halsey halsig halstead halton halwende halwnRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ha) - Names That Begins with ha:
ha'ani habib habiba habibah hacket hackett hadad hadar hadara hadarah hadassah haddad hadden haddon hadeel haden hadi hadiya hadiyah hadiyyah hadleigh hadley hadon hadrian hadu haduwig hadwin hadwyn hadya haefen haele haemon haesel haestingas haethowin haethowine hafgan hafsah hafthah hagaleah hagalean hagan hagar hagaward hagley hagly hagop hagos hahkethomemah hahnee hai haideeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HALFORD:
First Names which starts with 'hal' and ends with 'ord':
First Names which starts with 'ha' and ends with 'rd':
haywardFirst Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':
hamid hammad hand harald harland harold harrod hartwood haywood heahweard heardind hefeydd herald heywood hid hild hildbrand hildebrand hildegard hildehrand hind hobard hobbard hod hoireabard houd howard howland hubbard hud hulbard huld humayd hunfrid hunfriedEnglish Words Rhyming HALFORD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HALFORD AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HALFORD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (alford) - English Words That Ends with alford:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (lford) - English Words That Ends with lford:
telford | adjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - English Words That Ends with ford:
crawford | noun (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey. |
hartford | noun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds. |
hereford | noun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent. |
oxford | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - English Words That Ends with ord:
abord | noun (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address. |
verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost. |
backsword | noun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge. |
noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. |
bedcord | noun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed. |
bord | noun (n.) A board; a table. |
noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures. | |
noun (n.) See Bourd. |
broadsword | noun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. |
byword | noun (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. |
noun (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying. |
catchword | noun (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue. |
noun (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. | |
noun (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc. |
chord | noun (n.) The string of a musical instrument. |
noun (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. | |
noun (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve. | |
noun (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4. | |
noun (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. | |
verb (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. | |
verb (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that. |
clarichord | noun (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord. |
clavichord | noun (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord. |
concord | noun (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union. |
noun (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league. | |
noun (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case. | |
noun (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine. | |
noun (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony. | |
noun (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters. | |
verb (v. i.) To agree; to act together. |
cord | noun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. |
noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. | |
noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal. | |
noun (n.) See Chord. | |
verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Core |
decachord | noun (n.) Alt. of Decachordon |
disaccord | noun (n.) Disagreement. |
verb (v. i.) To refuse to assent. |
discord | noun (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. |
verb (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. | |
verb (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. |
disord | noun (n.) Disorder. |
fiord | noun (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. |
fjord | noun (n.) See Fiord. |
foreword | noun (n.) A preface. |
gord | noun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. |
harpsichord | noun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano. |
heptachord | noun (n.) A system of seven sounds. |
noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords. | |
noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. |
hexachord | noun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones. |
koord | noun (n.) See Kurd. |
landlord | noun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. |
noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house. |
loord | noun (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. |
lord | noun (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. |
noun (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. | |
noun (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. | |
noun (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. | |
noun (n.) A husband. | |
noun (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor. | |
noun (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah. | |
noun (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ. | |
verb (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. | |
verb (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord. | |
verb (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb. |
misword | noun (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word. |
verb (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence. |
monochord | noun (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them. |
milord | noun (n.) Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman. |
nayword | noun (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword. |
neurochord | adjective (a.) Alt. of Neurochordal |
neurocord | noun (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. |
notochord | noun (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm. |
octachord | noun (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones. |
octochord | noun (n.) See Octachord. |
ord | noun (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning. |
overlord | noun (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master. |
password | noun (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. |
pentachord | noun (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings. |
noun (n.) An order or system of five sounds. |
polychord | noun (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings. |
noun (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument. | |
adjective (a.) Having many strings. |
rheochord | noun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit. |
seabord | noun (n. & a.) See Seaboard. |
smallsword | noun (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. |
soord | noun (n.) Skin of bacon. |
sord | noun (n.) See Sward. |
sword | noun (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties. |
noun (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power. | |
noun (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension. | |
noun (n.) The military power of a country. | |
noun (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. |
tetrachord | noun (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable. |
trichord | noun (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings. |
urochord | noun (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HALFORD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (halfor) - Words That Begins with halfor:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (halfo) - Words That Begins with halfo:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (half) - Words That Begins with half:
half | adjective (a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view. |
adjective (a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge. | |
adjective (a.) Part; side; behalf. | |
adjective (a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple. | |
adverb (adv.) In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious. | |
verb (v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. |
halfbeak | noun (n.) Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo. |
half blood | noun (n.) A person so related to another. |
noun (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed. | |
() The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4. |
halfcocking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halfcock |
halfen | adjective (a.) Wanting half its due qualities. |
halfendeal | noun (n.) A half part. |
adverb (adv.) Half; by the part. |
halfer | noun (n.) One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares. |
noun (n.) A male fallow deer gelded. |
halfness | noun (n.) The quality of being half; incompleteness. |
halfpace | noun (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace. |
halfway | adjective (a.) Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. |
adverb (adv.) In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. |
half tone | noun (n.) Alt. of Half-tone |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hal) - Words That Begins with hal:
halting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hail |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halt |
halacha | noun (n.) The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash. |
halation | noun (n.) An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture. |
halberd | noun (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. |
halberdier | noun (n.) One who is armed with a halberd. |
halcyon | noun (n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice. | |
adjective (a.) Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy. |
halcyonian | adjective (a.) Halcyon; calm. |
halcyonold | noun (a. & n.) See Alcyonoid. |
hale | noun (n.) Welfare. |
adjective (a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul. |
haling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hale |
halesia | noun (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels. |
halibut | noun (n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. |
halichondriae | noun (n. pl.) An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea. |
halicore | noun (n.) Same as Dugong. |
halidom | noun (n.) Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. |
noun (n.) Holy doom; the Last Day. |
halieutics | noun (n.) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology. |
halmas | adjective (a.) The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. |
haliographer | noun (n.) One who writes about or describes the sea. |
haliography | noun (n.) Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea. |
haliotis | noun (n.) A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone. |
haliotoid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped. |
halisauria | noun (n. pl.) The Enaliosauria. |
halite | noun (n.) Native salt; sodium chloride. |
halituous | adjective (a.) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous. |
halk | noun (n.) A nook; a corner. |
hall | noun (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. |
noun (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. | |
noun (n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. | |
noun (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building. | |
noun (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. | |
noun (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). | |
noun (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. | |
noun (n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. |
hallage | noun (n.) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall. |
halleluiah | noun (n. & interj.) Alt. of Hallelujah |
hallelujah | noun (n. & interj.) Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. |
hallelujatic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs. |
halliard | noun (n.) See Halyard. |
hallidome | noun (n.) Same as Halidom. |
hallier | noun (n.) A kind of net for catching birds. |
halloo | noun (n.) A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout. |
noun (n.) An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. | |
verb (v. i.) To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo. | |
verb (v. t.) To encourage with shouts. | |
verb (v. t.) To chase with shouts or outcries. | |
verb (v. t.) To call or shout to; to hail. |
halloing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halloo |
hallowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hallow |
halloween | noun (n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. |
hallowmas | noun (n.) The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. |
halloysite | noun (n.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color. |
hallucal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the hallux. |
hallucination | noun (n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. |
noun (n.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. |
hallucinator | noun (n.) One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. |
hallucinatory | adjective (a.) Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination. |
hallux | noun (n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds. |
halm | noun (n.) Same as Haulm. |
halma | noun (n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon. |
noun (n.) A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress. |
halo | noun (n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions. |
noun (n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus. | |
noun (n.) An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object. | |
noun (n.) A colored circle around a nipple; an areola. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo. |
haloing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halo |
haloed | adjective (a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Halo |
halogen | noun (n.) An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HALFORD:
English Words which starts with 'hal' and ends with 'ord':
English Words which starts with 'ha' and ends with 'rd':
haggard | noun (n.) A stackyard. |
adjective (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. | |
adjective (a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes. | |
adjective (a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. | |
adjective (a.) A fierce, intractable creature. | |
adjective (a.) A hag. |
hairbird | noun (n.) The chipping sparrow. |
hangbird | noun (n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole. |
hansard | noun (n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers. |
noun (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse. |
haphazard | noun (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. |
hard | noun (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp. |
superlative (superl.) 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. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful. | |
superlative (superl.) 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. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character. | |
superlative (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. | |
superlative (superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider. | |
superlative (superl.) 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. | |
superlative (superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone. | |
superlative (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. | |
superlative (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. | |
adverb (adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly. | |
adverb (adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard. | |
adverb (adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. | |
adverb (adv.) So as to raise difficulties. | |
adverb (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. | |
adverb (adv.) Close or near. | |
verb (v. t.) To harden; to make hard. |
hasard | noun (n.) Hazard. |
haybird | noun (n.) The European spotted flycatcher. |
noun (n.) The European blackcap. |
hayward | noun (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large. |
hazard | noun (n.) A game of chance played with dice. |
noun (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. | |
noun (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. | |
noun (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). | |
noun (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. | |
noun (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. | |
noun (n.) To venture to incur, or bring on. | |
noun (n.) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground. | |
verb (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. |