These are the meanings of the letters HAGRID when you unscramble them.
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Arid (a.)
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
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Drag (n.)
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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Drag (v. t.)
To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
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Drag (v. t.)
To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
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Drag (v. t.)
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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Drag (v. i.)
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
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Drag (v. i.)
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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Drag (v. i.)
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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Drag (v. i.)
To fish with a dragnet.
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Drag (v. t.)
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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Drag (v. t.)
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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Drag (v. t.)
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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Drag (v. t.)
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
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Drag (v. t.)
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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Drag (v. t.)
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
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Drag (v. t.)
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
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Drag (v. t.)
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
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Drag (v. t.)
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
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Drag (v. t.)
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
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Drag (v. t.)
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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Drag (v. t.)
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
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Gird (n.)
A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
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Gird (n.)
A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
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Gird (v.)
To strike; to smite.
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Gird (v.)
To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
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Gird (v. i.)
To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
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Gird (v. t.)
To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
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Gird (v. t.)
To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
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Gird (v. t.)
To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
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Gird (v. t.)
To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
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Gird (v. t.)
To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
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Grid (n.)
A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
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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.