H`ARDLY, adv. See Hard. With difficulty with great labor.
Recovering hardly what he lost before.
1. Scarcely barely almost not.
Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.
2. Not quite or wholly. The object is so distant we can hardly see it. The veal is hardly done. The writing is hardly completed.
3. Grudgingly, as an injury.
4. Severely unfavorably as, to think hardly of public measures.
5. Rigorously oppressively. The prisoners were hardly used or treated.
6. Unwelcomely harshly.
Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man.
7. Coarsely roughly not softly.
Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed
So hardly lodged.