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▪ I. ˈhardhead1, hard-head
1. a. A hard-headed person; one not easily moved; one dull of intellect.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 63 Some men counte them nygardis and hardheedis that wyll haue a rekenynge of exspensis. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 36 A flintie fellowe and a hard head. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 22 Hard-head and Block-head, terms of reproach with us. 1848Durivage Stray Subj. 110 (Farmer) Most of the passengers had disappeared for the night, and only a knot of hard-heads were left upon deck. 1967P. Jones Fifth Defector xiii. 190 I'd advise you to keep your mouth shut and let the hardheads handle it at embassy level.
b. A person not easily affected by alcohol.
1860E. Cowell Diary 19 Mar. (1934) 41 Mr. Van Orden a very pleasant, but, to Sam, very dangerous companion being a great drinker, and one of the ‘Hard Heads’ whom drink does not seem to hurt.
†2. A contest of butting with the head. Also hard-heads. Obs.
1681Dryden Spanish Friar v. ii. I have been at hard-head with your butting citizens. 1687― Hind & P. ii. 443 Both play at hard-head till they break their brains. 1831Scott Jrnl. 16 Oct., He has been at hard-heads with the rogues, and come off with advantage.
3. The name of several fishes:
a. The sea scorpion or father-lasher, Cottus scorpius.
b. The grey gurnard, Trigla gurnardus.
c. The menhaden (New England).
1803Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross 128 (Jam.) Scorpius major nostras; our fishers call it Hardhead. 1810Neill List of Fishes 14 (Jam.) Trigla Gurnardus. Crooner or Crointer. It is known by a variety of other names, as Captain Hardhead [etc.]. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. vi. 91 The very air was fishy, being perfumed with dead sculpins, hardheads, and dogfish. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hard-head..on our coasts the father-lasher or sea-scorpion, Cottus scorpius.
4. The Californian grey whale, Rhachianectes glaucus: so called from its habit of butting boats.
1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 213 They have a variety of names among whalemen, as ‘Hard-head’, ‘Devil-fish’.
5. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida, more fully called hard-headed dipper (Atlantic Coast, U.S.) (Cent. Dict.)
6. The plant Knapweed. Also hard-heads.
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 401 Common or Black Knap-weed..which the country people in some places call Hard-heads. 1828Craven Dial., Hard-heads, Knapweed. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 250 Hard-head.
7. A variety of sponge.
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 160 The principal varieties..are known as sheep-wool, white reef, abaco velvet, dark reef, boat, hardhead, grass, yellow and glove.
8. A residual alloy of tin, iron, and arsenic, produced in the refining of tin.
1881in Raymond Mining Gloss.
▪ II. ˈhardhead2 Obs. exc. Hist.
Also hardit.
[? A corruption of F. hardit, hardi (in Cotgr. ardit, ardy) hardy; said to be from hardi, surname of Philip III of France, under whom the coin was first issued.]
A Scottish copper coin of Mary and James VI, of the value of about three halfpence English money. App. the same as the lion.
1563in Pitcairn Crim. Trials Scotl. I. 440 Convict of contirfeeting of the prenting irnes..of ane Lyone callit þe Hardheid. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 365 (MS. G) Daylie thair was suche numbers of Lions (alias called Hard-heids) prented, that the basenes thairof maid all thingis exceiding dear. 1644D. Hume Hist. Douglas 334 (Jam.) A certain brasse or copper coyne (called Hardheads). 1893Antiquary Mar. 105 Coins found in St. Queran's well 1869..James VI hardheads or bodles. |