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harassment behavior that threatens, attacks, or offends another person repeatedly.
harbinger someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. [2 definitions]
harbor a sheltered area of water for boats to be anchored or otherwise secured. [5 definitions]
harborage a shelter and anchoring place for ships.
harborless combined form of harbor.
harbor master an official who supervises harbor operations and enforces regulations governing harbor use.
hard not soft; solid; firm; tough. [11 definitions]
hardback bound in a hard or durable cover. [2 definitions]
hardball baseball. [4 definitions]
hard-bitten made tough or stubborn by hard experience.
hardboard construction board made of wood chips that have been heated and compressed.
hard-boiled of an egg, boiled in the shell until firm all the way through. (Cf. soft-boiled.) [2 definitions]
hardbound of a book, bound with a stiff cover rather than one of flexible paper; hardcover.
hard case one who is stubbornly unchanging or obstinate, as in clinging to destructive behavior patterns.
hard coal see "anthracite."
hard-core deeply committed or determined. [2 definitions]
hardcover a book produced with a relatively hard cover, usu. of cardboard and cloth; hardback. [2 definitions]
hard disk a rigid, magnetized disk built into a computer that is capable of storing a large amount of data.
hard drive a device usu. inside a computer that copies data to and from a computer's hard disk; hard disk drive.
hard drug any drug, such as heroin, that is addictive and causes long-term harmful effects.
harden to make hard or more resistant to pressure. [6 definitions]