Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HARE'FOOT, n.

A bird; a plant. Ainsworth.

HARE'HEART-ED, a.

Timorous; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

HARE'HOUND, n.

A hound for hunting hares. Chalmers.

HARE'HUNT-ER, n.

One who hunts or is used to hunting hares. Pope.

HARE'HUNT-ING, n.

The hunting of hares. Somerville.

HARE'LIP, n.

A divided upper lip, like that of a hare. Wiseman.

HARE'LIP-PED, a.

Having a harelip.

HAR'EM, n. [Ar. حَرَمَ harama; to prohibit, drive off, or deny access.]

A seraglio; a place where Eastern princes confine their women, who are prohibited from the society of others.

HARE'MINT, n.

A plant. Ainsworth.

HA-REN'GI-FORM, a. [See Herring.]

Shaped like a herring. Dict. Nat. Hist.

HARE'PIPE, n.

A snare for catching hares. Stat. James I.

HARE'S'-EAR, n.

A plant of the genus Bupleurum. The Bastard Hare's Ear is of the genus Phyllis.

HARE'S'-LET-TUCE, n.

A plant of the genus Sonchus.

HARE'WORT, n.

A plant.

HAR'I-COT, n. [Fr. from Gr. αρακος.]

1. A kind of ragout of meat and roots. Chesterfield.
2. In French, beans.

HAR'I-ER, n. [from hare.]

A dog for hunting hares; a kind of hound with an acute sense of smelling. Encyc.

HAR-I-O-LA'TION, n. [L. hariolatio.]

Soothsaying.

HAR'ISH, a.

Like a hare.

HARK, v.i. [contracted from hearken, – which see.]

To listen; to lend the ear. Shak. Hudibras. This word is rarely or never used, except in the imperative mode, hark, that is, listen, hear.

HARL, n.

1. The skin of flax; the filaments of flax or hemp.
2. A filamentous substance. Mortimer.

HAR'LE-QUIN, n. [Fr. harlequin, a buffoon; It. arlecchino; Sp. arlequin; Arm. harliqin, furluqin, a juggler. I know not the origin of this word. It has been suggested that the last component part of the word is from the Gothic, Sw. leka, to play, and a story is told about a comedian who frequented the house of M. de Harley, but I place no reliance on these suggestions.]

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, like a merry-andrew, to divert the populace. This character was first introduced into Italian comedy, but is now a standing character in English pantomime entertainments. Encyc. [Boundless and mad, disorder'd rhyme was seen; / Disguis'd Apollo chang'd to Harlequin. Boileau's Art of Poetry; English Translation of his Works, Lond. 1712, vol. i. p. 89. – E. H. B.]

HAR'LE-QUIN, v.i.

To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

HAR'LE-QUIN-ADE', n.

Exhibitions of harlequins.

HAR'LOCK, n.

A plant. Drayton.

HAR'LOT, a.

Wanton; lewd; low; base. Shak.