hard-set

hard-set
/hahrd"set"/, adj.
1. firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.
2. in a difficult position: The troops were hard-set before their supplies came.
3. determined; obstinate.
[1400-50; late ME harde set]

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