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Hardely,t adv. Hardily; boldly; certainly. Hardihead, t Hardyhead t (härd’i-hed), n. Hard-pressed (härd 'prest), a. In a strait
Chaucer.
Same as Hardihood.

or difficulty; short of cash; having neither
Harden (härd'n), v.t. [Hard, a. (which see), Enflamed with fury and fierce hardyhead. Spenser. time nor money to fulfil obligations.
and en, verb-forming suffix.] 1. To make Hardihood (härd'i-hyd), n. [Hardy and

Hard-pushed härd'pusht),a. Hard-pressed; hard or more hard; to make firm or compact; suffix hood.] Boldness, united with firmness

urged by difficulties; straitened; hardto indurate; as, to harden iron or steel; to and constancy of mind; dauntless bravery; Hard-ruled (hård'röld), a.

pressed for money or time. harden clay.-2. To confirm in effrontery,

Governed with intrepidity. obstinacy, wickedness, opposition,or enmity.

It is the society of nuinbers which gives hardihood Hard-run (härd'run), a.

difficulty. Shak. Wherefore then do ye handen your hearts, as the to iniquity.

See under HARD, Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts !

adv. I Sam. vi. 6.

Syn. Intrepidity, courage, stoutness, auda- Hards (hårdz), n. pl. The refuse or coarse 3. To make insensible or unfeeling; as, to city, effrontery.

part of wool or flax.
harden one against impressions of pity or Hardily (härd 'i-li), adv. In a hardy manner; Hardship (härd’ship), n. 1. Toil; fatigue;
tenderness.

with hardiness.
Years have not yet hardened me, and I have an
Hardimentt (härd'i-ment), n. Same as

severe labour or want; whatever oppresses
addition of weight on my spirits since we lost him.
Hardihood. Spenser.

the body. Swift. Hardiness (härd'i-nes), n. 1. The state or

You could not undergo the toils of war,

Nor bear the hardships that your leaders bore. 4. To make firm; to strengthen; to inure. quality of being hardy; (a) boldness; firm

Addison. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10. courage; intrepidity; stoutness; bravery: 2. Injury; oppression; injustice.

applied to the mind it is synonymous with Harden (härd'n), v.i. 1. To become hard or

They are ripe for a peace, to enjoy what we have hardihood.

conquered for them; and so are we, to recover the more hard; to acquire solidity or more com

Criminal as you are, you avenge yourself against effects of their hardships upon us. Swift. pactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

the hardiness of one that should tell you of it. 2. To become unfeeling.-3. To become in

Hard-tack(härd'tak), n. Large, coarse, hari!

Spectator.
ured.
(6) Firmness of body; capability of endur-

biscuit much used by sailors and by soldiers; Hardened (hård'nd), p. and a. Made hard, ance. (c) Excess of confidence; assurance; Hard-up (härd’up), a. See under HARD, adr.

sea-bread. or more hard or compact; made unfeeling; effrontery.-2. Hardship; fatigue. made obstinate; confirmed in error or vice; They are valiant and hardy; great endurers of Hard-visaged (hård'vi-zājd), a. Having as, a hardened sinner. cold, hunger, and all hardiness. Spenser.

coarse features; of a harsh countenance. Hardener (härd'n-ér), n. He who or that Harding, t n. Hardening Chaucer.

Hardware (härd'wär), n. Wares made of which makes hard or more firm and com- Hardish (härd'ish), a. Somewhat hard ;

iron or other metal, as pots, kettles, saws, pact; specifically, one who brings tools up

knives, &c. The hardware manufacture is tending to hardness. to the required temper.

one of the most important carried on in Hard-laboured (härd'la-bérd), a. Wrought Harder (härd'ér), n. A kind of mullet, about

Great Britain. Birmingham and Sheffield with severe labour; elaborate; studied; as, 8 inches long, caught near the coasts of the a hard-laboured poem. Swift.

are its principal seats. Cape Colony, which is cured in brine, and Hardlet (härdl), n. Same as Hurdle. Hol- Hardwareman (härd'wār-man), n. A maker sent up the country in small casks for the

or seller

of hardware.
land.
use of the farmers.

Hard-won (hård'wun), a. Won with diffi-
Hardly (härd'li), adv. 1. With difficulty;
Hard-faced (hård'fāst), a. Having a hard with some trouble; not easily; not readily, Hardwood (härd'wyd), n.

culty.

A term applied or stern face; hard-featured.

'Recovering hardly what he lost before.' Hard-favoured (härd'fā-verd), a. Having

to woods of a very close and solid texture, Dryden. coarse features; harsh of countenance.

as beech, oak, ash, maple, ebony, &c.

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he de Hard-working (härd'werk-ing), a. Labour-
The brother a very lovely youth, and the sister sires the credit of being thought good. South.
hard-favoured.
L'Estrange.

ing hard.

2. Scarcely; barely; not quite; as, the veal is Hardy (härd'i), a. (Fr. hardi, bold, daring, Hard-favouredness (härd'fā-verd-nes), n. hardly done; the writing is hardly com

presumptuous, properly the pp. of the old Coarseness of features.

pleted. - 3. Grudgingly; with a feeling of verb hardir (for which enhardir is now Hard-featured (hård'fē-türd), a. Having anger or ill-will.

used), to make bold, from 0.H.G. hartjan, coarse features.

If I unwittingly
Hard-fern (härd'fern), n. The popular name Have aught committed that is hardly borne

from hart (E. hard), hard, bold. Though for Lomaria spicant, which is also known

By any in this presence, I desire

French in form the English word derives To reconcile me.

Shak. as Blechnum boreale. It is a very common

several of its meanings directly from hard. fern, being found everywhere in Britain

4. Severely; unfavourably; as, to think See HARD.) 1. Bold; brave; stout; daring; growing on heaths, in glens, on old roadside hardly of public measures. —5. Rigorously;

resolute; intrepid; as, who is hardy enough walls, and other places. It has simple pinoppressively; as, the prisoners were hardly

to encounter contempt?-2. Confident; full natifid fronds, of which the sterile ones grow used or treated. —6. Unwelcomely; harshly.

of assurance; impudent; stubborn to excess. to about a foot in length, while the fertile

Such information comes very hardly and harshly

3. Strong; firm; compact.

Locke.
ones are somewhat longer, and have con-
to a grown man.

An unwholesome blast may shake in pieces his

South. tracted segments. 7. Coarsely; roughly; not softly. So hardly

hardy fabric. Hard-fish (härd'fish), n. Salted and dried lodged.' Dryden. - 8. † Confidently; hardily.

4. Inured to fatigue; rendered firm by exercod, ling, &c. (Scotch.) Holland.

cise, as a veteran soldier.-5. Capable of Hard-fisted (hård' fist-ed), a. 1. Having Hard-money (härd-mun'i), n. Silver and bearing exposure to cold weather; as, a hard or strong hands, as a labourer. - gold coin, as distinguished from paper- hardy plant. 2. Close-fisted; covetous. money.

Hardy (härdi), n. In blacksmiths' work, a None are so gripple and hard-fisted as the child. Hard-mouthed (härd mouthd), a. 1. Hav- chisel or fuller having a square shank for less.

Bp. Hall, ing a hard mouth; not sensible to the bit; insertion into a square hole in an anvil. Hard-fought (härd'fąt), a. Vigorously con

not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed Hardy-shrew (härd'i-shro), n. The shrew-
horse.

mouse.
Hard-
tested; as, a hard-fought battle.
fought field.' Fanshawe.

'Tis time my hard-mouth'd coursers to controul,

Hare (hár), n. [A. Sax. hara; comp. Dan. and Hard-got, Hard-gotten (härd'got, härd'

Apt to run riot, and transgress the goal. Dryden. Sw. hare, Icel. heri, G. hase, O.G. haso; progot-n), a. Obtained with difficulty. 'Hard- 2. Coarse in stricture; harsh in reproof; as,

bably allied to Skr. çaça—a hare; çaç, to got spoils.' Drayton.

a hard-mouthed barrister.

jump.] 1. The common name of the rodent

1. The state or Hard-grass (härd'gras), n. A popular name Hardness (hård'nes), n.

quadrupeds of the genus Lepus, with long for various grasses, such as Rottboellia, quality of being hard in any of its senses;

ears, a short tail, soft hair, a divided upper Sclerochloa, and Ægilops. solidity; density; difficulty of comprehen

lip, two small incisors immediately behind Hard-hack (härd hak), n. The American sion, accomplishment, control, or endur

the usual rodent incisors in the upper jaw, popular name of a plant, the Spiræa tomen- ance; obduracy; harshness; want of sensi

long hind-legs, and hairy soles. The comtosa, common in pastures and low grounds,

bility; roughness; niggardliness; severity;
and celebrated for its astringent properties.

inclemency.
Hard-handed (härd hand-ed), a. 1. Having This label ... whose containing
hard hands, as a labourer.–2. Practising

Is so from sense in hardness that I can
Make no collection of it.

Shak.
severity; ruling with a high hand.

By their virtuous behaviour they compensate the
The easy or hard-handed monarchies, the domestic hardness of their favour.

Ray.
or foreign tyrannies.

Milton.

Specifically-2. In mineral. the capacity of a
Hardhead (härd'hed), n. 1. Clash or colli-

substance to scratch another or be scratched
sion of heads in contest.

by another; the quality of bodies which
I have been at hardhead with your butting citi. enables them to resist abrasion of their
zens; I have routed your herd, I have dispersed surfaces. Scales have been constructed in
them.

Dryden.
which a set of standard bodies are arranged

Hare (Lepus timidus).
2. A local name for the knapweed (Cen- and numbered, and other bodies are referred
taurea nigra).

to this scale in respect of hardness. The mon hare (L. timidus) is a timid animal, Hard-headed (härd'hed-ed), a. Shrewd ; diamond is the hardest body known, and in often hunted for sport or foi its fies difficult to be over-persuaded ; intelligent the scale of Mohs its hardness is indicated which is excellent food. It moves by leaps, or clear-headed and firm; as, a hard-headed by the number 10. This scale is as follows: and is remarkable for its fecundity, gener Scotchman.

Talc, 1; rock-salt, 2; calcareous spar, 3; ally producing three or four at a time and Hard-hearted (hård'härt-ed), a. Cruel ; fluor-spar, 4; apatite, 5; felspar, 6; rock- breeding several times in the year. The pitiless; merciless; unfeeling; inhuman; crystal, 7; topaz, 8; corundum, 9; diamond, Irish hare is the L. hibernicus; the Alpine, inexorable. 10.

Scotch, or varying hare the L. variabilis, John Bull, otherwise a good-natured man, was very Hard-nibbed (härd'nibd), a. Having a hard which is less than the common hare, and is hard-hearted to his sister Peg. Arbruthnot. nib or point.

confined to northern alpine districts, becomHard-heartedly (hård'hårt-ed-li), adv. In Hardock (här dock), n. A kind of dock with ing white in winter; the American hare is a hardhearted manner. whitish leaves; hoar-dock.

the L. americanus, not much larger than a Hard-heartedness (härd'härt-ed-nes), n. Hard-pan (härd'pan), n. In agri. the name rabbit; the Polar hare is the L. glacialis; the Want of feeling or tenderness; cruelty; in- given to a hard stratum of earth below the Indian hare L. ruficaudatus, very similar to humanity. soil.

the common hare. Other species occur at

ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch;

8, go;

j, job; , Fr. ton;

ng, sing;

TH, then; th, thin;

w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.— See KEY.

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the Cape of Good Hope, in Egypt, and vari. Harengiform (ha-ren'ji-form), a. Shaped tary Harley, earl of Oxford, and his son. The ous parts of Asia. The fur of the hare is like a herring

collection is now in the British Museum. used for felting and for making hats, &c. - Hare-pipe (hār'pīp), n. A snare for catching Harlequin (hürle-kwin), n. [Fr. harlequin, 2. In astron. one of the forty-eight ancient hares.

arlequin; It. arlechino, probably from the constellations of Ptolemy, situated in the Hare's-ear (hārz'ēr), n. The popular name devil Alichino, in the 30th canto of Dante's southern hemisphere.

of the genus Bupleurum, a remarkable ge- Inferno.] A performer on the stage, as Haret (hâr), v.t. [O. Fr. and Norm. harer, nus of umbelliferous plants, one species of in a pantomime or harlequinade, masked, harier, to stir up or provoke. Comp. ha- which (B. rotundifoliuin) is common in some dressed in tight parti-coloured clothes, rass, harry.) To fright, or to excite, tease, parts of England. It has alternate leaves, covered with spangles, and armed with a and harass or worry.

so extended at the base that the stalks seem magic wand or sword, with which he plays I'the name of men or beasts, what do you do?

to grow through the leaves, whence the tricks, generally without speaking, to divert Hare the poor fellow out of his five wits

plant is also called Thorow-wax and Thorow- the audience or spectators; hence, a buffoon And seven senses.

B. Jonson. leaf. The fowers are small and of a green- in general; a fantastic fellow; a droll. Harebell (hár'bel), n. The common Eng- ish-yellow colour. The term hare's-ear is Harlequin (härlė-kwin), v.i. To play the lish name of the Campanula

also assigned to Erysimum austriacum and droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous rotundifolia, a plant of the guy E. orientale.

tricks. nat. order Campanulacea,

Hare's-foot (hārz'fut), 11. A name applied Harlequin (härle-kwin), v.t. To remove as also termed the common bell

to Ochrona Lagopus, a plant belonging to if by a harlequin's trick; to conjure away. flower and Scottish blue-bell, the nat, order Sterculiacea. It is a Central

The kitten, if the humour hit,
It is very abundant in Scot-
American tree, growing to the height of

Has harlequind away the fit.
land, and grows on dry and
40 feet, and its spongy wood is so light that

Green, Poem of the Spleen, hilly pastures, borders of

rafts formed from it are unsinkable. It has Harlequinade (härle-kwin-ad'), n. A kind fields, road sides, hedges,&c.,

its name from its fruit, which is about 1 foot of pantomime; that part of a pantomime growing to the height of

long, and when ripe splits open by five slits, which follows the transformation-scene, and from 6 to 14 inches. It is

from which the silk-cotton of the seeds in which the harlequin and clown play the perennial, and flowers in July

spreads over the whole surface, giving it principal parts. and August; the corolla is

the appearance of a hare's foot. The cotton Harlequin-beetle (här'le-kwin-bet-1), n. A blue and bell-shaped. The

is used for stuffing cushions and pillows. - coleopterous insect (Acrocinus longimanus), whole plant is slender and The hare's-foot trefoil is Trifolium arvense.

so called from the mixture of gray, black, graceful. It is a great faHare's-foot Fern (hārz'íut fern), n. Daval

and red on the elytra. vourite in Scotland, and has

lia canariensis, a fern having a creeping Harlequin-duck (harle-kwin-duk), n. A been much celebrated by the

Harebell (C.

stem or rhizome covered with brown chatt, species of duck (the Clangula histrionica), poets of that country.

rotundifolia). and supposed to resemble the foot of a a native of Hudson's Bay and Northern E'en the slight harebell raised its head, hare. See DAVALLIA.

Europe. It has a beautifully mottled plumElastic from her airy tread.

Sir W. Scott. Hare's-form (härz'form), n. A hare's seat age, the male being fantastically streaked The name harebell is also applied in many or bed.

with gray, whence the name. districts to the wild hyacinth (Scilla nu- Hare's-lettuce (hārz'let-tis), n. A plant, Harlequin-snake (här'le-kwin-snāk), n. A tans), also known as Hyacinthus non-scrip- the sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), a fav- venomous South American snake (Elaps tus. ourite food of hares.

fulvius), so called from its being striped Hare-braint (hār'brān), a. Hare-brained. Hare's-tail (hārz'tal), n. A species of cotton

with red and black. A bold, hare-brain, mad fellow.' Burton. grass, Eriophorum vaginatum.

Harlock (härlok), n. A plant mentioned by Hare-brained (hārbrān (Comp. mad Hare's-tail Grass (härz'tal gras), n. The Shakspere and Drayton, and supposed by as a March hare.') Giddy: volatile; heed- popular name of a genus of grasses, Lagurus, some to be the charlock. less. * That hare-brained wild fellow.' nat order Graminea: so called from the Harlot (här'lot), n. [This word may be the Bacon.

resemblance of the head to a hare's tail. same as 0. Fr. harlot, herlot, Pr. arlot, Sp. Hareem (ha-rēm'), n. See HAREM.

One species (L. ovatus) grows in Guernsey. arlote, It. arlotto, a glutton, a lazy good-forHarefoot (hār'fyt), 1. 1. The ptarmigan. Hare-stane (hār'stán), n. [See HOARSTONE.] nothing, a word of uncertain origin; or it 2. A plant. See HARE'S-FOOT.

A memorial stone, or a stone marking a may be the W. herlawd, a stripling. a Hare-hearted (härhärt-ed), a. Timorous,

boundary; a hoarstone; as, the hare-stane springal, herlodes, a damsel.) 1.7 A male like a hare; easily frightened.

on the Borough Muir of Edinburgh. [Scotch.) servant; a husbandman; a fellow. Harehound (hår'hound), n. A hound for Harfang (här'fang), 1. (A. Sax. hara, a

A sturdy harlot went them aye behind, hunting hares; a greyhound. hare, and fangan, to catch.) The great

That was her hostes man.

Chaucer. Hare-hunting (hår hunt-ing), n. The sport snowy owl (Surnia nyctea) found in the He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chancer. of coursing or hunting the hare with dogs.

arctic regions. It preys on hares, grouse, 2. A base person; a rogue; a cheat. Hare-kangaroo (hārkang-ga-rö), n. A &c.

No man, but he and thou and such other false small kangaroo (Macropus leporoides) of Hari (ha'ri), n. A name of the Hindu god

hariots, praiseth any such preaching.

Fore. Australia, not unlike a hare, but smaller in Vishnu.

3. A woman who prostitutes her body for size.

Haricot (ha'ri-ko), n. (Fr., a ragout; 0.Fr. Hareld (ha’reld), n. [Perhaps from its cry.] harigoter, to mince, harigote, a piece, a

hire; a prostitute; a common woman. An oceanic duck of the genus or sub-genus morsel. The bean probably has its name

As soon as this thy son was come, who hath devoured thy living with hariots.

Luke xv. 30. Harelda, having a short thick bill, a high from its being much used in ragouts: hariforehead, and two very long feathers in the cot-bean=ragout-bean.] 1. A kind of ragout Harlot (härlot), a. Pertaining to or like a tail of the male, whilst the females have the

of meat and roots.-2. The kidney-bean or harlot; wanton; lewd; low; base. tail short and rounded. The long-tailed French bean.

Harlot (här lot), v.i. To practise lewdness.

Milton. duck (H. glacialis) inhabits the northern and Harie, v.i. To hurry; to harass. Chaucer. arctic seas during summer, being frequent Harled, t pp: Hurried. Chaucer.

Harlotize (härlot-īz), v.i. To play the harSame as Harrier.

lot. in Orkney and Shetland, but it is rare in Harier (ha'ri-ér), n.

Warner. South Britain. It flies swiftly and is an ex

Hariff (ha'rif), n. A plant, goose-grass or Harlotry (härlot-ri), n. 1. The trade or pert diver, and its down is said to rival that clivers (Galium A parine).

practice of prostitution; habitual or cusof the eider.

Harigals, Harigalds (ha'ri-galz, ha'ri-galdz), tomary lewdness.-2. A name of contempt Hare-lip (hārʻlip), n. A fissure or vertical n. pl. [Fr. haricot. See HARICOT.) (Scotch.) or opprobrium for a woman. division of one or both lips, sometimes ex- 1. The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

A peevish self-will'd harlotry 2. The hair of the head.

That no persuasion can do good upon. tending also to the palate. Children are

Shak. frequently born with this kind of malfor- I think I have towzled his harigalds a wee. 3. False show; meretriciousness.

• The mation, particularly of the upper lip. The

Ramsay

harlotry of the ornaments.' Matthias. cleft is occasionally double, there being a Hariolation (här-i-o-lā'shon), n. [L. hario

Harm (härm), 9. (A. Sax. hearn or harm; little lobe or portion of the lip situated belatio, hariolationis, soothsaying, from hario

Dan. Sw. G. harm, grief, offence; Icel. tween the two fissures. Every species of lor, to foretell.) Soothsaying.

harmr. Probably akin to Skr. fram, to the deformity has the same appellation of Hariot (ha'ri-ot), n. Same as Heriot.

weary.) 1. Physical or material injury; hare-lip, in consequence of the imagined reHarish (hår'ish), a. Like a hare.

hurt; damage; detriment. semblance which the part has to the upper Hark (härk), v.1. [Contr. from hearken.) To

Do thyself no harm,

Acts xvi. 28. lip of a hare. The cure of hare-lip is per

listen; to hearken: now only used in the formed by cutting off quite smoothly the imperative.

2. Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness. opposite edges of the fissure, and then Pricking up his ears to hark

Deep hari to disobey,

Hudibras.

If he could hear too in the dark. bringing them together and maintaining

Seeing obedience is the bond of rule. Tennyson. them in accurate apposition till they have

Hark the clock within, the silver knell. Tennyson. Harm (härm), v.t. To hurt; to injure; to firmly united.

-Hark! a hunting cry used with various damage. This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. He begins

adjuncts to stimulate or direct the hounds; Harmaline (här'ma-lin), n. (C18H14 N.O.) at curfew, and walks till the first cock. He

as, hark forward! hark away! cries in- A vegeto-alkali obtained from the seeds of squints the eye and makes the hare.lip. Shak.

tended to urge the chase forward; hark the Peganum Harmala, a plant of Southern Hare-lipped (harʻlipt), a. Having a harelip. back! a cry to the hounds, when they have Europe and Asia Minor. Harem (há'rem), n. (Ar. haram, anything lost the scent, directing them to return Harmattan (här-mat'tan), n. (Arabic name. ) prohibited, muharram, prohibited, from upon their course and recover it; hence, to A wind which blows periodically from the ħharram, to prohibit.] 1. The apartments hark back has come to be used in literature interior parts of Africa towards the Atlantic appropriated to the female members of a as meaning to return to some previous point, Ocean. It prevails in December, January, Mohammedan family.--2. The occupants of as of a subject, and start from that afresh. and February, and is generally accompanied a harem. These may consist of a wife, or Harl (härl), n. 1. A filamentous substance; with a fog or haze, which conceals the sun wives to the number of four, of female especially, the filaments of flax or hemp. for days together. Extreme dryness and slaves, who may be retained as concubines 2. A barb of one of the feathers from a pea- hotness are the characteristics of this wind; or as servants, and of female free slaves with cock's tail, used in dressing fly-hooks.

it withers vegetation, and even affects the whom concubinage is unlawful. Written Harle (härl), v. t. See HAURL.

human body so that the skin peels off. also Hareem, Harim, Haram.

Harleian (härle-an), a. Term appellative of Harmel (här'mel), n. [Ar. harmal.] Syrian Hare-mint (hārʻmint), 22. A plant. Ains- a collection consisting of 7000 manuscripts, rue (Peganum Varmala), common in the worth

besides rare printed books, made by Secre- south of Europe and Asia Minor. The seeds HARMFUL

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The qua

The qua

yield harmaline, and are used in Turkey as ing motion on their centres while the rim at New Harmony, Indiana, whence they a vermifuge.

was touched by the finger. This instrument removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1822. Harmful (härm'ful), a. Full of harm; hurt- was invented by a German and improved They hold their property in common, and ful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mis- by Dr. Franklin.--2. A musical instrument consider marriage a civil contract. chievous.

consisting of a small box, in which are Harmonite (harmon-it), n. Same as HarThe earth brought forth fruit and food for man, ranged horizontally a number of oblong monist, 2. without any mixture of harmful quality. Raleigh. plates of glass, sometimes of metal, of un- Harmonium (här-mo'ni-um), n. A musical Harmfully (härm'fyl-li), adv. In a harmful

instrument resembling a small organ, and

much used as a substitute for it. It is played manner. A scholar is better occupied in playing or sleeping,

on by a clavier or key-board similar to that than in spending his tiine not only vainly, but harm

of an organ or pianoforte, and the sounds fully in such kind of exercise. Ascham.

are produced by reeds, not unlike the reedHarmfulness (härm'fyl-nes), n.

pipes of an organ, but left free at one endlity or state of being harmful.

hence called free reeds--caused to vibrate Harmin, Harmine (här'min), n. (C13H12N20.)

by wind from a bellows worked by the feet. A substance derived from harmaline by oxi

It has different stops or registers. This indation, or directly from the seeds of Pega

strument is best adapted for the perform

Harmonica, num Harmala,

ance of grave or sacred music. Harmless (härm'les), a. 1. Free from harm;

Harmoniumist (hår-mo'ni-um-ist), n. A unhurt; undamaged; uninjured; as, to give

equal length, which are struck with a small

player of the harmonium.

flexible hammer, the handle of which is Harmonization (hår'mon-iz-á"shon), n. The bond to save another harmless.

made of whalebone, and the striking part The shipwright will be careful to gain by his

act of harmonizing or state of being harmonof cork covered with taffeta. The length labour, or at least to save himself harmless.

ized. Raleigh.

of the plates determines the pitch of the Harmonize (hår'mon-iz), v.i. pret. & pp. har2. Free from power or disposition to harm;

notes, the high notes being produced by monized; ppr. harmonizing. 1. In music, not injurious; innocent. The harmless

the short plates, and the low by the long. to form a concord; to agree in sounds or deer.' Drayton. --Syn. Innocent, innoxious, 3. Same as llarmonicon, 2.

musical effect; as, the tones harmonize. innocuous, inoffensive, unoffending, unhurt, Harmonically (här-mon'ik-al-li), adv. In a

2. To be in peace and friendship, as indiviuninjured, unharmed, undamaged.

harmonic manner; musically; harmoniously; duals or families. --3. To agree in action, Harmlessly (härm'les-li), adv. In a harmsuitably.

adaptation, or effect; to agree in sense or pur

An less manner: without inflicting injury; with

Harmonichord (här-mon'i-kord), n. port; as, the arguments harmonize; the facts out receiving injury.

instrument played like a pianoforte, but stated by different witnesses harmonize. Harmlessness (härm'leg-nes), n.

sounding like a violin. The tone is pro- | Harmonize (harmon-iz), v.t. 1. To adjust lity or state of being harmless.

duced by the pressure of the keys, which in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show

sets a revolving cylinder of wood, covered The harmlessness, ... the tenderness, the mo

the harmony or agreement of; to reconcile with leather and charged with rosin, in acdesty, and the ingenuous pliableness to virtuous

the contradictions between.-2. To make counsels, which is in youth untainted. South tion over the strings.

musical; to combine according to the laws Harmonia (hår-mò'ni-a), n. A small planet Harmonicon (hår-mon'i-kon), n. 1. A power

of counterpoint; to set accompanying parts or asteroid between the orbits of Mars and

ful musical instrument consisting of a large to, as an air or melody. T'he Lutheran Jupiter, discovered by Goldschmidt, March

barrel organ, containing, in addition to the chorals harmonized by Bach.' Dwight. 31, 1856.

common pipes, others to imitate the differ- Harmonizer (här'mon-iz-ér), n. One who Harmonic, Harmonical (här-mon'ik, här

ent wind-instruments and an apparatus to harmonizes; a harmonist. Commentators mon'ik-al), a. 1. Relating to harmony or

produce the effects of drums, triangles, and harmonizers.' Cleaver. music.

cymbals, &c., the combination being in- Harmonizing (här'mon-iz-ing), a. Being in

tended to resemble the effect of a military After every three whole notes, nature requireth,

accordance; bringing to an agreement. band. -2. A musical instrument only used Harmonometer (hår-mon-om'et-ér), n. for all harmonical use, one half note to be interposed.

Bacon.
as a toy, consisting of free reeds inclosed in

[ Harmony (which see), and Gr. metron, 2. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, har

a box in such a way that inspiration pro- measure. ] An instrument or monochord monic sounds.

duces one set of sounds, respiration an- for measuring the harmonic relations of

other.-3. Same as Harmonica, 2. -Chemi- sounds. Harmonic twang of leather, horn and brass. Pope.

It often consists of a single string cal harmonicon, a contrivance consisting of stretched over movable bridges. 3. In music, an epithet applied to the acces- a tube of glass, or of any other material, in Harmony (här'mo-ni), n. [L. and Gr. harsary sounds which accompany the predomi- which a small flame of hydrogen gas is made monia, from Gr. harmos, a suiting or fitting nant and apparently simple tone of any to burn, in consequence of which the column string, pipe, or other sonorous body.--4. In

together, from arő, to fit, to adapt.] 1. The of air contained in the tube gives forth math. having relations or properties bear

just adaptation of parts to each other, in musical sounds. ing some resemblance to those of musical | Harmonics (här-mon'iks), n. The doctrine

any system or combination of things, or in

things intended to form a connected whole; consonances: said of numbers, terms of cer

or science of musical sounds. tain ratios, proportions, and the like.- Harmonious (här-mo'ni-us), a. Exhibiting

as, the harmony of the universe. Harmonical curve, an ideal curve into or characterized by harmony; as, (a) adapted

Equality and correspondence are the causes of har

Bacon. which a musical chord is supposed to be to each other; having the parts proportioned Heaven's harmony is universal law. Corper inflected when put into such a motion as to each other; symmetrical. to excite sound. - Harmonic interval, in

2. In music, (a) just proportion of sound:

God hath made the intellectual world harmonious music, the distance between two chords or

consonance; musical concord; the accordand beautiful without us.

Locke. between two consonant notes. --Harmoni

ance of two or more sounds, or that union (6) Musically concordant; consonant; symcal mean, in arith. and alg. a term used to

of different sounds which pleases the ear; phonious. Harmonious sounds are such as express certain relations of numbers and

or a succession of such sounds called chords. accord and are agreeable to the ear. quantities. An harmonical mean between

Ten thousand harps that tuned two quantities, as a and b, is double a fourth Thoughts, that voluntary move

Milton,

Angelic harmonies.
Harmonious numbers,

Milton. proportional to the sum of the quantities,

(6) The science which treats of such sounds. and the quantities themselves. Thus a+b:

(c) Agreeing in action or feeling; living in 3. Concord or agreement in facts, views, a b

peace and friendship; as, an harmonious sentiments, manners, interests, and the like; a::b: which is the fourth propor- family or society.

good correspondence; peace and friendship; Harmoniously (här-mo'ni-us-li), adv. In a as, good citizens live in harmony. 2 ab tional, and is the harmonical mean.-harmonious manner.

Harmony to behold in wedded pair, a +6

Distances, motions, and quantities of matter har. More grateful than harmonious sounds to the ear. Harmonical proportion, in arith, and alg. moniously adjusted in this great variety of our sys.

Milton. The relation between four quantities when

Bentley 4. In anat, an immovable articulation, in the first is to the fourth as the difference Harmoniousness (här-mo'ni-us-nes), n. The which the depressions and eminences prebetween the first and second is to the dif- quality or condition of being harmonious. sented by the bony surface are but slightly ference between the third and fourth, or Harmoniphon (här-mon'i-fon), n. [Gr. har- marked, as in the union of the superior when a :d :: a ~b:c~d. In like manner monia, a close fitting together, harmony, maxillary bones with each other.-5. A litthree quantities are said to be in harmoni. and phone, sound.) A musical wind-instru- erary work which brings together parallel cal proportion when the first is to the third ment consisting of a series of free reeds in- passages of historians respecting the same as the difference between the

serted in a tube like a clarinet. It is played events, and shows their agreement or confirst and second to the differ

upon by means of keys arranged like those sistency: said especially respecting the gosence between the second and

of a pianoforte, that is, those producing the pels. - Natural harmony, in music, consists third. - Harmonical series, a

normal scale are in one row, and those pro- of the harmonic triad or common chord. series of many numbers in con

ducing the chromatic tones in another. Artificial harmony is a mixture of concords tinued harmonical proportion. Harmonic Harmonist (här'mon-ist), n. 1. One who and discords. -- Figured harmony is when -Harmonic triad, in music,

Triad. harmonizes; specifically, (a) in music, one one or more of the parts move during the the chord of a note, consisting

skilled in the principles of harmony; a writer continuance of a chord, through certain of its third and perfect fifth, or in other of harmony; a musical composer.

notes which do not form any of the constitwords, the common chord.

A musician may be a very skilful harmonist and uent parts of that chord.- Perfect harmony Harmonic (här-mon'ik), n. In music, (a) a yet be deficient in the talents of melody, air, and ex. implies the use of untempered concords note produced by a number of vibrations pression.

A. Smith.

only.-Tempered harmony is when the notes which is a multiple of the number prodluc- (1)One who shows the agreement or harmony are varied by temperament. See TEMPERAing some other; a secondary and less dis- between corresponding passages of different MENT. -- Close harmony is when the sounds tinct tone which accompanies any principal authors, as of the four evangelists.

composing each chord are placed so near to and apparently simple tone, as the octave, He endeavoureth to show how, among the fathers,

each other that no sound belonging to the the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seven- Augustine and Hierom are flatly against the harmon. chord could again be interposed between teenth. (b) An artificial tone produced.

ists.

Nelson.

any of those already present. -Spread harHarmonica (har-mon'i-ka), n. 1. A collec- 2. One of a certain sect of Protestants from mony is when the sounds of a chord are tion of musical glass goblets, resembling Würtemberg, who settled in America in placed at such a wide distance from each finger-glasses, which were put into a revolv- 1803. Their first American settlement was other that some of them might be again

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interposed between the sounds already pre- Harp (härp), n. [A. Sax. hearpa, Icel, harpa, gives forth sound; to give expression to or sent. - Harmony or music of the spheres, 0.H.G. harfa, G. harfe, late L. harpa, which utter. the music imperceptible to human ears, is probably the Latin form of Gr. harpē, a

Thou'st harped my fear aright. Skak. produced by the movements of the heavenly sickle, from its shape. The name may be 2. In Scotland, to sift or separate by means bodies, according to the belief or hypothesis originally Teutonic, however, and the L.L.

of a harp; as, to harp grain; to harp sand. of Pythagoras and his school. Pythagoras harpa merely a Latinized form of it.] 1. A Harpa (här pa), n. (L. harpa, a harp.) A supposed these motions to conform to cer- stringed musical instrument of great anti

genus of gasteropodous molluscs of the tain fixed laws which could be expressed in quity,found among the Assyrians, Egyptians, whelk family (Buccinidæ), distinguished by numbers, corresponding to numbers Hebrews, Greeks, Irish, Welsh, and other

the beauty of their shells. They are comwhich give the harmony of sounds. It is to nations. It is found in great variety of form

monly called Harp-shells, because their this hypothesis that Shakspere refers in the and construction, some of its varieties being curved outlines have some resemblance to following passage:shown in the accompanying figures. Ali

the shape of a harp, and their deep longituLook how the floor of heaven these, it will be seen, except the AngloIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;

dinal ridges represent the strings. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st

Harpactidæ (här-pak'ti-dē), n. pl. (Gr. harBut in his motion like an angel sings,

pax, rapacious, from harpazo, to seize, and Still quiring to the young-ey d cherubim:

eidos, resemblance.) A family of entomosSuch harmony is in immortal souls;

tracous crustaceans of the order Copepoda, But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

having the eyes so closely set together as to Merch. of Venice, v.

appear only one. - Pre-established harmony, an hypothesis

Harpagon 7 (här pa-gon), n. [Gr. harpage, adopted by Leibnitz, to explain the corre

from harpazo, to seize.) A grappling-iron. spondence which exists between the course

Harpagophytum (här-pa-gof'i-tum), n. (L. of our sensations and the series of changes

harpago, a hook; Gr. harpagē, a seizure, actually going on in the universe.

from harpazo, to seize; and Gr. phyton, a Harmost(härmost), n. (Gr. harmostēs, from

plant.! A genus of plants, nat. order Pedaliharmoző, to regulate.] In Greek antiq. a

aceæ, including the grapple-plant of South governor sent by the Lacedæmonians, after

Africa, H, procumbens. Another species, the Peloponnesian war, into a subject or

H. leptocarpum, much resembling the grapconquered town, partly to keep it in subjec

2

ple-plant in distinctive characteristics, is a tion, and partly to abolish the democratic

native of Madagascar. form of government, and establish in its

Harpalidæ (här-pal'i-dē), n. pl. (Gr. harpastead one similar to their own.

los, greedy, and eidos, resemblance.] An exHarmotome (här'mő-tõm), n. [Gr. harmos,

tensive family of coleopterous insects, of the a joint, and temno, to cut.] See CROSS

section Geodephaga, by some regarded as a STONE.

sub-family of the Carabidæ. The Harpalidæ Harn (härn), n. (For hardin, hardyn, from

are divided into three principal sections, hards, the refuse of flax.) A very coarse

characterized by modifications of the antekind of linen. (Scotch.]

rior tarsi of the male:(a) Harpalinæ, having Her cutty sark o Paisley harr,

the four anterior tarsi of the males dilated: That while a lassie she had worn. Burns.

6) Feronince, having the two anterior tarsi Harn (härn), a. Made of harn; hence, coarse.

dilated, and the joints heart-shaped: (c) Pa(Scotch.)

tellimana, having the two anterior tarsi of Harneis,t n. Harness; armour; furniture.

the males dilated, the joints being square Chaucer

or rounded. They are usually found under Harneise, t v.t. or i. To dress.

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stones. Harness (här'nes), n. [W. harnais, haiar

Harpax (här'paks), n. [Gr. harpax, rapanaez, harness, from haiarn, iron. Fr. har

Ancient Harps.

cious.) A genus of fossil shells of the group nais, G. harnisch, are probably borrowed

1, 2, Egyptian. 3, Assyrian. 4, Persian. 5, Anglo- Ostreacea, oblong and somewhat triangular from the English.] 1. The whole accoutre

Saxon.

in shape, the hinge being formed by two ments or equipments of a knight or horse

projecting teeth. It is now included in the man; originally perhaps defensive armour, Saxon, differ from the modern harp in

genus Plicatula, but used also for the furniture of a military wanting the front pillar. There are no re- Harper (härp'er), n. 1. A player on the man, defensive or offensive, as a casque, presentations of the Hebrew harp of un- harp.-2. An Irish brass coin of the reign of cuirass, helmet, girdle, sword, buckler, &c. doubted accuracy, The modern harp is Queen Elizabeth, of the size of a shilling

I can remember that I buckled his harness when nearly triangular in form, and the strings and the value of a penny: so called from he went into Blackheath field.

Latimer. are stretched from the upper part to one bearing the figure of a harp. "The harper 2. The gear or tackle by which a horse or of the sides. It stands erect and is played that was gathered amongst us to pay the other animal is yoked to and made to draw with both hands, the strings being struck or piper.' B. Jonson. or work a vehicle or anything else, as a pulled by both fingers and thumb. Before Harping (härp'ing), a. Pertaining to the waggon, coach, gig, chaise, plough, harrow, its improvement by Erard, the harp was harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton. mill, log of wood, &c.; the working gear of tuned in the principal key, and modulations Harping-iron (härp'ing-i'ern), n. A hara horse or other animal: sometimes applied effected by pressure of the thumb, or by poon (which see). to gear by which men drag heavy weights. turning the tuning-pins of the strings which

The boat which on the first assault did go, 3. The apparatus in a loom by which the sets it was desired to alter. Erard first added Struck with a harping-iron the younger foe. of warp threads are shifted alternately to seven pedals to the instrument, which were

Waller. form the shed. It consists of the heddles moved by the foot of the performer, and Harpings, Harpins (härp'ingz, härp'inz), and their means of support and motion. afterwards constructed a double-action harp n. pl. Naut. the foreparts of the wales, Called also Mounting.

with seven pedals. The harp thus con- which encompass the bow of the ship, and Harness (hår'nes), v.t. 1. To dress in armour; structed contains forty-three strings tuned terminate in the stem. Their use is to to equip with armour for war, as a horse- according to the diatonic scale, every eighth strengthen the ship in the place where she

Harnessed in rugged steel.' Rowe. string being a replicate in another octave of sustains the greatest shock in plunging into 2. To equip or furnish for defence.

the one counted from. By means of the the sea They saw the camp of the heathen, that it was pedals each string can be sharpened twice, Harpist (härp'ist), n. A player on the harp; strong, and well harnessed, and compassed round each time a semitone, so that the instru- a harper. about with horsemen.

i Macc. iv. 7. ment is capable of rendering the full chro- Harpoon (här-pön), n. [Fr. harpon, a har3. To put harness on, as a horse. Harness matic scale, and of modulating into all the poon, from harper, to gripe, to clutch, prothe horses.' Jer. xlvi. 4.

keys of the tonal system. Its range is six bably from harpe, a harp, and also a claw, Harness-cask (här'nes-kask), n. See HAR

octaves, being from double E below the a hook or angle-iron (see HARP); the D. NESS-TUB.

bass to E in altissimo.-2. A constellation, harpoen, G. harpune, have the same origin.] Harness-currier (här'nes-ku-ri-er), n. A otherwise called Lyra or the Lyre.-3. For- A spear or javelin used to strike and kili dresser of leather for harness or saddlery merly, an Irish coin bearing the emblem of whales and large fish. It consists of a long purposes.

a harp, of the value of a halfpenny.-4. In Harnesser (här'nes-er), n. One who har- Scotland, a grain-sieve for removing weednesses.

seeds from grain; also, an oblong implement, Harness-plater (här'nes-plāt-ér), n. A work

consisting of a frame filled up with parallel man who electroplates the metal work for wires resembling the strings of a harp, for harness.

6 separating the finer from the coarser parts Harness-tub (här'nes-tub), n. Naut. a cask of sand; a screen. of a peculiar form fastened on the deck of a Harp (härp), v.i. 1. To play on the harp. vessel to receive the salted provisions for daily consumption. Called also Harness

I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.

Rev. xiv. 2. cask. Harness-weaver (här'nes-wēv-ér), n.

2. To dwell on a subject tiresomely and vex

A weaver employed in the manufacture of the atiously, in speaking or writing; to speak or

a, Hand-harpoon. bc, Gun-barpoons. more complicated patterns of shawls, &c.

write repeatedly with slight variations: usu[Scotch.)

ally with on or upon.
He seems

shank, with a broad flat triangular head, Harns (härnz), n.pl. [A. Sax. hærnes, D. hierne, Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am :

sharpened at both edges for penetrating Icel. hjarni, G. ge-hirn, brains.) Brains. Not what he knew I was.

Shak. the whale with facility. It may be thrown (Scotch.)

by the hand or fired from a gun.

See HARHaroja (ha-ro'ja), n. Same as Halluf, -To harp on one string, to dwell too exclu

POON-GUN
Harow, Harrowt (ha'rő), exclam. [O. Fr.

sively upon one subject, so as to weary or
annoy the hearers.

Harpoon (här-pön), v.t. To strike, catch, or haro. ) A form of exclamation anciently

kill with a harpoon. used in Normandy to call for help or to You harp a little too much upon one string. Collier,

The beluga is usually caught in nets, but is someraise the hue-and-cry. Harp (härp), v.t. 1. To give forth, as a harp times har pooned.

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Harpooneer (här-pön-ēr'), n. A harpooner. Harraget (här'rāj), v.t. To harass; to der, to afflict, from here, an army, an ex(Rare.] plunder from.

pedition; comp. Icel. herja, to lay waste, Harpooner (här-pön'ér), n. One who uses This of Lincoln, harraged out before, should now to oppress; Dan. hærge, hærje, G.(ver) heeren, a harpoon; the man in a whale-boat who lie fallow,

Fuller.
to ravage.

With this word the A. Sax. throws the harpoon.

Harrateen (har-ra-tēn'), n. A kind of stuff hyrwian, to vex, afflict, seems to have been Harpoon-gun (hår-pöngun), n. A gun for or cloth. Shenstone.

early confounded. See HARROW.] 1. To firing a harpoon, employed in the whale. Harrico (har'ri-ko), n. The same as Hari- strip; to pillage; to plunder; to rob; as, to fishery. Its barrel is about 2 feet long and cot.

harry a bird's nest. 3 inches exterior diameter, and rests on a Harridan (ha'ri-dan), n. [Fr. haridelle, Prov. And still, from time to time the heathen host swivel. The harpoon to be discharged from Fr. hardele, harin, a worn-out horse, a jade. ) Swarm'd overseas and harried what was left. A hag; an odious old woman; a vixenish

Tennyson. woman; a trollop.

2. To harass; to agitate; to tease; to harrow. Harrier (ha'ri-ėr), n. (From hare.) A small

I repent me much kind of dog of the hound species employed

That I so harried him.

Shak. in hunting the hare. There are particular Harryt (ha'ri), v.i. To make harassing inbreeds of the harrier, as the large slow- cursions. hunting harrier and the little fox-beagle,

What made your rogueships and a cross-breed between these. In all

Harrying for victuals here? Beau, & FI. the scent is extremely keen, which enables Harry Soph (ha-ri-sof'), n. (Gr. erisophos, them to follow all the doublings of the hare. very learned.) In the University of Cam

Harrier (ha'ri-er), n. [From harry, to pil- bridge, a title given to those students who, Harpoon-gun.

lage, because it pillages the poultry-yards. ] having attained sufficient standing to take

A hawk of the genus Circus, allied to the the degree of B.A., declare themselves canit has the end of its shank fitting the bore

buzzards. The harriers are more bold and didates for a degree in law or physic. of the gun, and is so contrived that while a

active than the buzzards. They strike their | Harsh (härsh), a. (A Scandinavian word: part of its shank passes into the gun-barrel,

prey upon the ground and generally fly O.E. and Sc. harsk, harsh, rough, sharp, the cord attached to it remains outside, and

very low.

There

are several species, as the acid; Dan. and 0.sw. harsk, rancid; G.harsch, slides up to the end on being fired.

marsh-harrier, the hen-harrier, and ash- harsh, rough; root doubtful.) 1. Rough; Harpour,t n. A harper. Chaucer.

coloured harrier. These are all found in rugged; grating; especially, (a) to the touch; Harpress (hårp'res), n. A female player on

Great Britain. The marsh-harrier (C. æru- as, harsh cloth: opposed to smooth. Harsh the harp. Sir W. Scott.

ginosus), also called the moor-buzzard, sand.' Boyle. (6) To the taste; as, harsh Harp-seal (härp'sēl), n. The Greenland seal

harpy, and duck-hawk, is from 21 inches to fruit. (c) To the ear; discordant; jarring; (Phoca Greenlandica): so called from the 23 inches long. The head of the male is as, harsh notes; a harsh voice.-2. Austere; large, black, crescent-shaped mark on each

yellowish white. The hen-harrier (C. cy- crabbed; morose; peevish; as, civilization side of the back. See SEAL

aneus) is 18 inches to 20 inches long; the softens the harsh temper or nature of man. Harp-shell (härp'shel), n. See HARPA. adult male is of an almost uniform gray,

He was a wise man and an eloquent; but in his Harpsichont (härp'si-kon), n. The old the female brown. The female is called the nature harsh and haughty.

Bacon. name for the spinet and the harpsichord.

ringtail, from the rust-coloured ring formed 3. Rough; rude; abusive; rigorous; severe; Harpsichord (härp'si - kord), n. [Older by the tips of the tail-feathers. The hen

as, a harsh reflection. forms, arpsichord, harpsechord, harpsa

harrier is very destructive to poultry-yards,

whence the name. chorda, o. Fr. harpechorde, It. arpicordo

The male is sometimes
Bear patiently the harsh words of thy enemies.

Jer. Taylor. known as the blue hawk. harp and chord: it does not appear how the 8 got inserted.) A stringed musical in- Harri-karri, Harri-kiri (ha'ri-ka’ri, ha'ri- Harshly (härsh'li), adv. In a harsh manner; strument with a key-board for the fingers, ki'ri), n.

roughly; austerely; crabbedly; rudely; unThe Chinese term for the mode

pleasantly. in shape something like the horizontal of suicide incumbent on Japanese military

It would sound harshly in her ears. and civil officials, when ordered by govern

Shak. grand pianoforte. The strings or wires were set in vibration by a quill plectrum.

ment to perform it as a punishment for any Harshness (hårsh'nes), n. The quality or This instrument was difficult to keep in offence. It is effected by inflicting two

condition of being harsh. tune, and the quills needed constant re

gashes on the belly in the form of a cross. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence, newal. It was superseded by the piano

Called frequently by English writers Happy The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope. forte about the middle of the eighteenth Harrington t (härring-ton), n. A farthing Despatch.* Written also Harri-kiru.

- Acrimony, Asperity, Harshness, Tartness.

See ACRIMONY. century. Harpsicol, Harpsecolt (harp'si-kol), n. A

so named because Lord Harrington obtained Harslet (härs'let), n. Same as Haslet. harpsichord.

from James I. a patent for making brass Hart (hårt), n. [A. Sax. heort, hiorot; comp. Harpster (härp'stér), n. A female performer farthings.

L.G. and D. hert, Dan. hiort, Sw. hjort, Icel.

Same on the harp. (Rare.] Harringtonite (härring-ton-īt), n.

hjörtr, G. hirsch, stag; lit. horned animal ; Harpy (här pi), n. [Ér. harpie; L. harpyia: Harrott (ha'rot), n. A corruption of Herald. as Natrolite (which see).

allied to Gr. keras, L. cornu, a horn. See Gr. harpuia, from the root of harpazo, to

HORN.) A stag or male deer when he has seize or claw.] 1. In class. antiq. a fabulous

The first red herring that was broiled in Adam and passed his fifth year, and the sur-royal or winged monster, ravenous and filthy, hav

Eve's kitchen do I fetch my pedigree from, by the crown antler is formed. See ANTLER. – harrot's book.

B. Jonson, ing the face of a woman and the body of a

Hart of ten, a hart with ten tines or bird, with its feet and fingers armed with Harrow (ha'ro), n. [A. Sax. harewe, hyrwe; branches on his horns. sharp claws, and the face pale with hunger. D. harve, Sw. harf, a harrow; perhaps from

A great large deer!
A. Sax. hyrwian, to vex, to afflict.) An

What head?-Forked, a hart of ten. B. Jonson.
agricultural implement, usually formed of Hartall (härtæl), n. The East Indian name
pieces of timber or metal crossing each of orpiment.
other, and set with iron teeth, called tines. Hartbeest, Hartebeest (härt bēst, hår'te-

bäst), n. (Dutch.) The name given by the
Dutch colonists to the kaama, a South Afri-
can antelope. See KAAMA.
Hart-berry, Hart-crop (härt'be-ri, härt'-
krop), n. Bilberry (which see).
Hartent (härt'n), v.t. To hearten; to en-
courage. Spenser.

Hartin (hårt'in), n. (C10H170.) A fossil resin
Harrow.

resembling hartite; massive, but crystalliz

ing from rock-oil in needles belonging to It is drawn over ploughed land to level it

the trimetric system. It is found in the and break the clods, and to cover seed when Harpy, from an antique gem.

lignite of Oberhart, Austria. Sown. An implement, called a chain har- Hartite (härt'it), n. (C2H5.) A fossil resin The harpies were three in number, Aello,

row, consisting of a congeries of iron rings, Ocypete, and Celeno.

resembling hartin, and found like it in the In her. the harpy is

is used for covering grass seeds, and esperepresented as a vulture with the head and cially for separating weeds from the earth Hartroyal (hårt'roi-al), n.

lignite of Oberhart, Austria.

A plant, a spebreast of a woman. — 2. The harpy-eagle or clods in which they are enveloped.

cies of plaintain. (which see). -—3. A name given to the Circus Harrow ha'rð), v. t. 1. To draw a harrow Hart's-clover, Hart's-trefoil (härts’klőæruginosus, or marsh-harrier, a British speover, for the purpose of breaking clods and

vér, hårts' tré-foil), n. A plant, the comcies of hawk, allied to the buzzards. See levelling the surface, or for covering seed

mon yellow melilot (Melilotus officinalis). HARRIER.-4. Any rapacious or ravenous sown; to break or tear with a harrow; as,

See MELILOT. animal; an extortioner; a plunderer.

to harrow land or ground.--2. To tear; to Hartshorn (hartshorn), n. The antler of I will ... do you any embassage rather than lacerate; to torment; to harass.

the hart or stag (Cervus elaphus). The conhold three words conference with this harpy. Shak. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word stituent elements of deciduous horns differ Harpy-eagle (här'pi-e-gl), n. The Harpyia

Would harrow up thy soul.

Shak.

materially from those of persistent horns, destructor of Linn., the Thrasaëtus Harpyia Harrow (ha'ro), v.t. (See HARRY.] To as of the ox, and are identical, or nearly so, of modern zoologists, a raptorial bird of pillage; to strip; to lay waste by violence. with those of bone. These horns were forMexico and South America, celebrated for Meaning thereby to harrow his people, did ac- merly much used as a source of ammonia, the enormous development of its legs and cumulate them the rather.

Bacon. and the products of their distillation much beak, and for the strength and power it Harrow (ha'ro), exclam. See HAROW. used in medicine under the name of the evinces in mastering its prey.

Harrower (ha'rő-ér), n. One who hartows. volatile salt of hartshorn, spirit of hartsHarquebuse, Harquebuss (härkwē-bus). Harrower ha'ro-ér), n. A species of hawk; horn, but these have now been superseded See ARQUEBÚSE. a harrier (which see).

by simpler preparations of ammonia and Harquebussier (här kwē-bus-ēr'). See AR- Harrowingly (ha'ró-ing-li), adv. In a har- carbonate of ammonia. See AMMONIA. QUEBUSIER. rowing manner; excruciatingly.

Jelly of hartshorn, a nutritive jelly, formerly Harr (här), n. (See HAAR.) A storm pro- Harry (ha'ri), v.t. pret. & pp. harried; ppr. obtained from the shavings of the horns of ceeding from the sea; a tempest; an eagre. harrying. [A. Sax. hergian, herian, to plun- harts, now procured by planing down the

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