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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hard
adv
  1. with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
  2. with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
    Synonym(s): hard, firmly
  3. earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
  4. causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
    Synonym(s): hard, severely
  5. slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
  6. indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"
    Synonym(s): heavily, intemperately, hard
    Antonym(s): lightly
  7. into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
  8. very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"
  9. with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
  10. to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
adj
  1. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
    Synonym(s): difficult, hard
    Antonym(s): easy
  2. dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
    Antonym(s): soft
  3. resisting weight or pressure
    Antonym(s): soft
  4. very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
    Synonym(s): hard, knockout, severe
  5. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
    Synonym(s): arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
  6. produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
    Synonym(s): unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard
    Antonym(s): soft, sonant, voiced
  7. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
    Synonym(s): hard, concentrated
    Antonym(s): diffuse, diffused, soft
  8. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
    Antonym(s): soft
  9. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"
    Synonym(s): intemperate, hard, heavy
  10. being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"
    Synonym(s): hard, strong
  11. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
    Synonym(s): hard, tough
  12. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
            act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
            or through.
  
                     By going over all these particulars, you may receive
                     some tolerable satisfaction about this great
                     subject.                                             --South.
  
      8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
  
                     The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that
                     it may find Good time, and live.         --Shak.
  
      9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
            the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
            depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
  
                     I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
                     your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
                                                                              --Ex. viii.
                                                                              28.
  
      10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
            perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
  
                     By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath
                     our master sped.                              --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
            street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
            York.
  
                     His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
                     may allow.                                       --Dryden.
  
      12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
  
      Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
               adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
               preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
               lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
               against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
               astray, etc.
  
      {Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
            serious or ironical.
  
      {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired.
  
      {To go about}.
            (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
                  undertake. [bd]They went about to slay him.[b8]
                  --Acts ix. 29.
  
                           They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
                           their vices.                              --Swift.
            (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.
                 
  
      {To go abraod}.
            (a) To go to a foreign country.
            (b) To go out of doors.
            (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
                  current.
  
                           Then went this saying abroad among the
                           brethren.                                    --John xxi.
                                                                              23.
  
      {To go against}.
            (a) To march against; to attack.
            (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.
  
      {To go ahead}.
            (a) To go in advance.
            (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.
  
      {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}.
  
      {To go aside}.
            (a) To withdraw; to retire.
  
                           He . . . went aside privately into a desert
                           place.                                       --Luke. ix.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.
  
      {To go back on}.
            (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
            (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
                  S.]
  
      {To go below}
            (Naut), to go below deck.
  
      {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
            secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.
           
  
      {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}.
  
      {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.
  
      {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried
            overboard; as, the mast went by the board.
  
      {To go down}.
            (a) To descend.
            (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
            (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
            (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
                  [Colloq.]
  
                           Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
                           whole with him for truth.            --L' Estrange.
  
      {To go far}.
            (a) To go to a distance.
            (b) To have much weight or influence.
  
      {To go for}.
            (a) To go in quest of.
            (b) To represent; to pass for.
            (c) To favor; to advocate.
            (d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
            (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).
  
      {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or
            result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
            for nothing.
  
      {To go forth}.
            (a) To depart from a place.
            (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
  
                           The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
                           the Lord from Jerusalem.            --Micah iv. 2.
  
      {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger.
  
      {To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]
  
      {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to
            have free access. --John x. 9.
  
      {To go in for}. [Colloq.]
            (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
                  measure, etc.).
            (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
                  preferment, etc.)
            (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
            (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
  
                           He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
                           anything else.                           --Dickens.
                 
  
      {To go in to} [or] {unto}.
            (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
            (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]
  
      {To go into}.
            (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
                  subject, etc.).
            (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).
  
      {To go large}.
            (Naut) See under {Large}.
  
      {To go off}.
            (a) To go away; to depart.
  
                           The leaders . . . will not go off until they
                           hear you.                                    --Shak.
            (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
            (c) To die. --Shak.
            (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
                  a gun, a mine, etc.
            (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
            (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
  
                           The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
                                                                              --Mrs.
                                                                              Caskell.
  
      {To go on}.
            (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
                  go on reading.
            (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
                  not go on.
  
      {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point.
  
                     It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
      {To go out}.
            (a) To issue forth from a place.
            (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
  
                           There are other men fitter to go out than I.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                           What went ye out for to see ?      --Matt. xi. 7,
                                                                              8, 9.
            (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
                  news, fame etc.
            (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
                  the light has gone out.
  
                           Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      {To go over}.
            (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
                  change sides.
  
                           I must not go over Jordan.         --Deut. iv.
                                                                              22.
  
                           Let me go over, and see the good land that is
                           beyond Jordan.                           --Deut. iii.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
                           Ammonites.                                 --Jer. xli.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
                  over one's accounts.
  
                           If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
                           shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
                           thing.                                       --Tillotson.
            (c) To transcend; to surpass.
            (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
                  session.
            (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
                  or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
                  orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
                  dextrose and levulose.
  
      {To go through}.
            (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
            (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
                  surgical operation or a tedious illness.
            (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
            (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
            (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]
  
      {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the
            end; to complete.
  
      {To go to ground}.
            (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
            (b) To fall in battle.
  
      {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
            unavailling.
  
      {To go under}.
            (a) To set; -- said of the sun.
            (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
            (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
                  to succumb.
  
      {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
            [Slang]
  
      {To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.
  
      {To go with}.
            (a) To accompany.
            (b) To coincide or agree with.
            (c) To suit; to harmonize with.
  
      {To go} (
  
      {well},
  
      {ill}, [or]
  
      {hard})
  
      {with}, to affect (one) in such manner.
  
      {To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of.
  
      {To go wrong}.
            (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
                  stray.
            (b) To depart from virtue.
            (c) To happen unfortunately.
            (d) To miss success.
  
      {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
            release.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hard \Hard\, a. [Compar. {Harder}; superl. {Hardest}.] [{OE}.
      heard, AS. heard; akin to OS. & D. heard, G. hart, OHG.
      harti, Icel. har[?]r, Dan. haard, Sw. h[86]rd, Goth. hardus,
      Gr.[?] strong, [?], [?], strength, and also to E. -ard, as in
      coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat, democracy; cf.
      Skr. kratu strength, [?] to do, make. Cf. {Hardy}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended,
            decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
  
                     The hard causes they brought unto Moses. --Ex.
                                                                              xviii. 26.
  
                     In which are some things hard to be understood. --2
                                                                              Peter iii. 16.
  
      3. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious;
            fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to
            cure.
  
      4. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
  
                     The stag was too hard for the horse.   --L'Estrange.
  
                     A power which will be always too hard for them.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      5. 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.
  
                     I never could drive a hard bargain.   --Burke.
  
      6. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding;
            obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard
            master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
  
      7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid;
            ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
  
                     Figures harder than even the marble itself.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      8. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
  
      9. (Pron.) 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.
  
      10. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a
            hard tone.
  
      11. (Painting)
            (a) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures;
                  formal; lacking grace of composition.
            (b) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the
                  coloring or light and shade.
  
      {Hard cancer}, {Hard case}, etc. See under {Cancer}, {Case},
            etc.
  
      {Hard clam}, [or] {Hard-shelled clam} (Zo[94]l.), the guahog.
           
  
      {Hard coal}, anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous or
            soft coal.
  
      {Hard and fast}. (Naut.) See under {Fast}.
  
      {Hard finish} (Arch.), a smooth finishing coat of hard fine
            plaster applied to the surface of rough plastering.
  
      {Hard lines}, hardship; difficult conditions.
  
      {Hard money}, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper
            money.
  
      {Hard oyster} (Zo[94]l.), the northern native oyster. [Local,
            U. S.]
  
      {Hard pan}, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil;
            hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental
            part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of
            character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See {Pan}.
  
      {Hard rubber}. See under {Rubber}.
  
      {Hard solder}. See under {Solder}.
  
      {Hard water}, water, which contains lime or some mineral
            substance rendering it unfit for washing. See {Hardness},
            3.
  
      {Hard wood}, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak,
            ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar,
            hemlock, etc.
  
      {In hard condition}, in excellent condition for racing;
            having firm muscles;-said of race horses.
  
      Syn: Solid; arduous; powerful; trying; unyielding; stubborn;
               stern; flinty; unfeeling; harsh; difficult; severe;
               obdurate; rigid. See {Solid}, and {Arduous}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hard \Hard\, adv. [OE. harde, AS. hearde.]
      1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
  
                     And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
  
      3. Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. --Shak.
  
      4. So as to raise difficulties. [bd] The guestion is hard
            set[b8]. --Sir T. Browne.
  
      5. 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.
  
      6. Close or near.
  
                     Whose house joined hard to the synagogue. --Acts
                                                                              xviii.7.
  
      {Hard by}, {near by}; close at hand; not far off. [bd]Hard by
            a cottage chimney smokes.[b8] --Milton.
  
      {Hard pushed}, {Hard run}, greatly pressed; as, he was hard
            pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.]
  
      {Hard up}, closely pressed by want or necessity; without
            money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang]
  
      Note: Hard in nautical language is often joined to words of
               command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should
               be carried out with the utmost energy, or that the helm
               should be put, in the direction indicated, to the
               extreme limit, as, Hard aport! Hard astarboard! Hard
               alee! Hard aweather up! Hard is also often used in
               composition with a participle; as, hard-baked;
               hard-earned; hard-working; hard-won.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hard \Hard\, v. t.
      To harden; to make hard. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hard \Hard\, n.
      A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
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