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harlean carpenter
  • n  United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)
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hardliner
  • n  a conservative who is uncompromising
  • s  firm and uncompromising
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hardness
  • n  the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
  • n  a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering
    the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present
  • n  devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
  • n  the quality of being difficult to do
    he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness
  • n  excessive sternness
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hardpan
  • n  crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
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hardship
  • n  a state of misfortune or affliction
    a life of hardship
  • n  something hard to endure
  • n  something that causes or entails suffering
    I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell
    the many hardships of frontier life
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hardstem bulrush
  • n  widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems
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hardstemmed bulrush
  • n  widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems
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hardtack
  • n  very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
  • n  a mountain mahogany
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hardtop
  • n  a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top
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hardware
  • n  major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile)
  • n  instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal
  • n  (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system
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hardware error
  • n  error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer
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hardwareman
  • n  someone who sells hardware
    in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger
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