These are the meanings of the letters ADHIR when you unscramble them.
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Arid (a.)
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
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Hair (n.)
The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
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Hair (n.)
One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
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Hair (n.)
Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
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Hair (n.)
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
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Hair (n.)
An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
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Hair (n.)
A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
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Hair (n.)
A haircloth.
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Hair (n.)
Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
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Hard (superl.)
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.
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Hard (superl.)
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
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Hard (superl.)
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
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Hard (superl.)
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
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Hard (superl.)
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.
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Hard (superl.)
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
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Hard (superl.)
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
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Hard (superl.)
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
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Hard (superl.)
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.
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Hard (superl.)
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
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Hard (superl.)
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
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Hard (superl.)
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
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Hard (adv.)
With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
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Hard (adv.)
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
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Hard (adv.)
Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
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Hard (adv.)
So as to raise difficulties.
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Hard (adv.)
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.
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Hard (adv.)
Close or near.
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Hard (v. t.)
To harden; to make hard.
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Hard (n.)
A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
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Raid (n.)
A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
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Raid (n.)
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
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Raid (v. t.)
To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.