Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAR'LOT, n. [W. herlawd, a stripling; herlodes, a hoiden; a word composed of her, a push, or challenge, and llawd, a lad. This word was formerly applied to males, as well as females. A sturdie harlot – that was her hostes man. Chaucer, Tales. He was a gentil harlot and a kind. Ibm. The word originally signified a bold stripling, or a hoiden. But the W. llawd, signifies not only a lad, that is, a shoot, or growing youth, but as an adjective, tending forward, craving, lewd. See Lewd.]

1. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman. Dryden.
2. In Scripture, one who forsakes the true God and worships idols. Is. i.
3. A servant; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fox.

HAR'LOT, v.i.

To practice lewdness. Milton.

HAR'LOT-RY, n.

The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden.

HARM, n. [Sax. hearm or harm. In G. the word signifies grief, sorrow.]

1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment. Do thyself no harm. Acts xvi. He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing. Lev. v.
2. Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.

HARM, v.t.

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable. Waller. Ray.

HAR-MAT'TAN, n.

A dry easterly wind in Africa, which destroys vegetation. Norris.

HARM'ED, pp.

Injured; hurt; damaged.

HAR'MEL, n.

The wild African rue.

HARM'FUL, a.

Hurtful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mischievous. The earth brought forth fruit and food for man, without any mixture of harmful quality. Ralegh.

HARM'FUL-LY, adv.

Hurtfully; injuriously; with damage. Ascham.

HARM'FUL-NESS, n.

Hurtfulness; noxiousness.

HARM'ING, ppr.

Hurting; injuring,

HARM'LESS, a.

1. Not hurtful or injurious; innoxious. Ceremonies are harmless in themselves. Hooker.
2. Unhurt; undamaged; uninjured; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
3. Innocent; not guilty. Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Heb. vii.

HARM'LESS-LY, adv.

1. Innocently; without fault or crime; as, to pass the time harmlessly in recreations.
2. Without hurt or damage. Bullets fall harmlessly into wood or feathers. Decay of Piety.

HARM'LESS-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being innoxious; freedom from a tendency to injure.
2. Innocence.

HAR-MON'IC, or HAR-MON'IC-AL, a. [See Harmony.]

1. Relating to harmony or music; as, harmonical use. Bacon.
2. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. Harmonic twang of leather, horn and brass. Pope. The basis of an harmonic system. Encyc. The harmonic elements are the three smallest concords. Edin. Encyc.
3. An epithet applied to the accessory sounds which accompany the predominant and apparently simple tone of any chord or string. Harmonical mean, in arithmetic and algebra, a term used to express certain relations of numbers and quantities, which are supposed to bear an analogy to musical consonances. Harmonical proportion, in arithmetic and algebra, is said to obtain between three quantities, or four quantities, in certain cases. Harmonical series, a series of many numbers in continued harmonical proportion. Cyc.

HAR-MON'I-CA, n.

A collection of musical glasses of a particular form, so arranged as to produce exquisite music. Encyc.

HAR-MON'IC-AL-LY, adv.

Musically.

HAR-MON'ICS, n.

1. Harmonious sounds; consonances.
2. The doctrine or science of musical sounds. Smith.
3. Derivative sounds, generated with predominant sounds, and produced by subordinate vibrations of a chord or string, when its whole length vibrates. These shorter vibrations produce more acute sounds, and are called acute harmonics.
4. Grave harmonics are low sounds which accompany every perfect consonance of two sounds. Edin. Encyc.

HAR-MO'NI-OUS, a.

1. Adapted to each other; having the parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical. God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us. Locke.
2. Concordant; consonant; symphonious; musical. Harmonious sounds are such as accord, and are agreeahle to the ear.
3. Agreeing; living in peace and friendship; as, a harmonious family or society.

HAR-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

1. With just adaptation and proportion of parts to each other. Distances, motions, and quantities of matter harmoniously adjusted in this great variety of our system. Bentley.
2. With accordance of sounds; musically; in concord.
3. In agreement; in peace and friendship.

HAR-MO'NI-OUS-NESS, n.

1. Proportion and adaptation of parts; musicalness.
2. Agreement; concord.

HAR-MON'I-PHON, n. [Gr. άρμονια and φωνη.]

A musical instrument whose sound is produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates. The air which acts on these vibrating substances is blown by the mouth through an elastic tube. It is played with keys like a piano-forte.

HAR'MO-NIST, n.

1. A musician; a composer of music.
2. One who brings together corresponding passages, to show their agreement.

HAR'MO-NIZE, v.i.

1. To be in concord; to agree in sounds.
2. To agree; to be in peace and friendship; as individuals or families.
3. To agree in sense or purport; as, the arguments harmonize; the facts stated by different witnesses harmonize.