harshness
- n the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
- n the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
- n the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
- n excessive sternness
the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
hart
- n United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)
- n United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943)
- n a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
hart's-tongue
- n tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya
- n Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds
hassam
- n United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935)
hart's-tongue fern
- n tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya
- n Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds
- n common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay
harte
- n United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902)
hartebeest
- n a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward
hartford
- n the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business
hartford fern
- n delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds
hartley
- n English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)
harvard
- n a university in Massachusetts
- n American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)