These are the meanings of the letters ADHIR when you unscramble them.
- Arid (a.)
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
- Hair (n.)
A haircloth.
- 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.
- Hair (n.)
A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
- 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).
- Hair (n.)
Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
- Hair (n.)
Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hard (adv.)
Close or near.
- Hard (adv.)
So as to raise difficulties.
- Hard (adv.)
Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
- Hard (adv.)
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
- Hard (adv.)
With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
- 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.
- Hard (n.)
A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
- 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.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
- Hard (superl.)
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
- 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.
- Hard (superl.)
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
- Hard (superl.)
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- Hard (superl.)
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
- Hard (superl.)
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
- Hard (v. t.)
To harden; to make hard.
- 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.
- 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.
- Raid (v. t.)
To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.