bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.-confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.-strong; firm; compact.-inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.-able to withstand the cold of winter.-a blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.