Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HA-RANGUE, n. [harang'; Fr. harangue; Sp. and Port. arenga; It. aringa; Arm. harencg; from the root of ring, to sound, Sax. hringan.]

1. A speech addressed to on assembly or an army; a popular oration; a public address. This word seems to imply loudness or declamation, and is therefore appropriated generally to an address made to a popular assembly or to an army, and not to a sermon, or to an argument at the bar of a court, or to a speech in a deliberative council, unless in contempt.
2. Declamation; a noisy, pompous or irregular address.

HA-RANGUE', v.i. [harang'.]

To make an address or speech to a large assembly; to make a noisy speech.

HA-RANGUE, v.t. [harang'.]

To address by oration; as, the general harangued the troops.

HA-RANG'UED, pp.

Addressed by oration.

HAR-ANGUE'FUL, a.

Full of harangue.

HA-RANG'UER, n. [harang'er.]

An orator; one who addresses an assembly or army; a noisy declaimer.

HA-RANG'UING, ppr.

Declaiming; addressing with noisy eloquence.

HAR'ASS, n.

Waste; disturbance; devastation. [Little used.] Milton.

HAR'ASS, v.t. [Fr. harasser. Qu. Ir. creasam.]

1. To weary; to fatigue to excess; to tire with bodily labor; as, to harass an army by a long march. Bacon.
2. To weary with importunity, care, or perplexity; to tease; to perplex. Nature oppress'd and harass'd out with care. Addison.
3. To waste or desolate. [Obs.] Hammond.

HAR'ASS-ED, pp.

Wearied; tired; teased.

HAR'ASS-ER, n.

One who harasses or teases; a spoiler.

HAR'ASS-ING, ppr.

Tiring; fatiguing; teasing.

HAR'BIN-GER, n. [See Harbor. Harbinger is properly a person who goes to provide harbor or lodgings for those that follow.]

1. In England, an officer of the king's household who rides a day's journey before the court when traveling, to provide lodgings and other accommodations. Encyc.
2. A forerunner; a precursor; that which precedes and gives notice of the expected arrival of something else.

HAR'BIN-GER-ED, a.

Preceded by a harbinger.

HAR'BOR, n. [Sax. here-berga, the station of an army; D. herberg, an inn; Dan. Sw. and G. herberge; Fr. auberge; Sp. and Port. albergue; It. albergo. The rust syllable, in the Teutonic dialects, signifies an army, or a troop, a crowd; the last syllable is berg, burg, a town, or castle, or from bergen, to save. But in the Celtic dialects, the first syllable, al, is probably different from that of the other dialects.]

1. A lodging; a place of entertainment and rest. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.
2. A port or haven for ships; a bay or inlet of the sea, in which ships can moor, and be sheltered from the fury of winds and a heavy sea; any navigable water where ships can ride in safety.
3. An asylum; a shelter; a place of safety from storms or danger.

HAR'BOR, v.i.

1. To lodge or abide for a time; to receive entertainment. This night let's harbor here in York. Shak.
2. To take shelter.

HAR'BOR, v.t.

1. To shelter; to secure; to secrete; as, to harbor a thief.
2. To entertain; to permit to lodge, rest or reside; as, to harbor malice or revenge. Harbor not a thought of revenge.

HAR'BOR-AGE, n.

Shelter; entertainment. [Not used.] Shak.

HAR'BOR-ED, pp.

Entertained; sheltered.

HAR'BOR-ER, n.

One who entertains or shelters another.

HAR'BOR-ING, ppr.

Entertaining; sheltering.

HAR'BOR-LESS, a.

Without a harbor; destitute of shelter or a lodging.

HAR'BOR-MAS'TER, n.

An officer who has charge of the mooring of ships, and executes the regulations respecting harbors. New York.

HAR'BOR-OUGH, n.

A harbor or lodging. [Not in use.]

HAR'BOR-OUS, a.

Hospitable. [Not in use.]