Word Meanings - HARD-VISAGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. Burke.

Related words: (words related to HARD-VISAGED)

• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• STERNSMAN
  A steersman.
• STERNMOST
  Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• STERNSON
  The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
• FEATURELESS
  Having no distinct or distinctive features.
• HARSH
  Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste.
• FEATURE
  fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, 1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature
• COUNTENANCE
  demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, 1. Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed
• STERNAGE
  Stern. Shak.
• STERNNESS
  The quality or state of being stern.
• STERN
  The black tern.
• STERNOCOSTAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
• FEATURELY
  Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
• STERNER
  A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
• STERNED
  Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
• STERNITE
  The sternum of an arthropod somite.
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK
• DISFEATURE
  To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
• PINK-STERNED
  Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
• ENDOSTERNITE
  The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
• LATISTERNAL
  Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON