1. Clash or collision of heads in contest. Dryden.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The menhaden. See Menhaden. [Local, U.S.] (b) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe. (c) A California salmon; the steelhead. (d) The gray whale. See Gray whale, under Gray. (e) A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).
HARD-HEADED
Hard"-head`ed, a.
Defn: Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
— Hard"-head`ed*ness, n.
HARD-HEARTED
Hard"-heart`ed, a.
Defn: Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
— Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.
HARDIHEAD
Hard"i*head, n.
Defn: Hardihood. [Obs.]
HARDIHOOD
Hard"i*hood, n. Etym: [Hardy + -hood.]
Defn: Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery;
intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.
A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.
It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.
Buckminster.