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6 definitions found 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. ``They went about to slay him.'' --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[*a]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["o]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["o]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. `` The guestion is hard set''. --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 ``Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.'' --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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hard 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"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: {difficult}] [ant: {easy}] 2: metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb" [ant: {soft}] 3: not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock" [ant: {soft}] 4: very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: {knockout}, {severe}] 5: characterized by toilsome 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" [syn: {arduous}, {backbreaking}, {grueling}, {gruelling}, {heavy}, {laborious}, {labourious}, {punishing}, {toilsome}] 6: of speech sounds [ant: {soft}] 7: of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker" [syn: {hard(a)}, {heavy}] 8: having undergone fermentation; "hard cider" [syn: {fermented}] 9: having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: {strong}] 10: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" [syn: {tough}] 11: dried out "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" 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" [syn: {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" [syn: {severely}] 5: slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard" 6: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: {heavily}, {intemperately}] [ant: {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"
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