Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAR-POON'ED, pp.

Struck, caught or killed with a harpoon.

HAR-POON'ER, n.

One who uses a harpoon; the man in a whale-boat who throws the harpoon.

HAR-POON'ING, ppr.

Striking with a harpoon.

HARP'SI-CHORD, n. [harp and chord.]

An instrument of music with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys. The striking of these keys moves certain little jacks, which move a double row of chords or strings, stretched over four bridges on the table of the instrument. Encyc.

HAR'PY, n. [Fr. harpie; It. Sp. and Port. arpia; L. harpyia; Gr. άρπυια, from the root of άρπαζω, to seize or claw.]

1. In antiquity, the harpies were fabulous winged monsters, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with their feet and fingers armed with sharp claws. They were three in number, Aello, Ocypete, and Celeno. They were sent by Juno to plunder the table of Phineus. They are represented as rapacious and filthy animals. Lempriere.
2. The largest of the eagle tribe; the Harpyia destructor, inhabiting Mexico and Brazil.
3. Any rapacious or ravenous animal; an extortioner; a plunderer.

HAR'QUE-BUSE, n. [See ARQUEBUSE.]

HAR-RA-TEEN', n.

A kind of stuff or cloth. Shenstone.

HAR'RI-CO, n.

A dish of vegetables, as beans.

HAR'RI-DAN, n. [Fr. haridelle, a jade, or worn-out horse See Hare, the verb.]

A decayed strumpet. Swift.

HAR'RI-ED, pp.

Stripped; harassed.

HAR'ROW, n. [Sw. harf, Dan. harve, a harrow. D. hark, G. harke, a rake, is probably the same word, allied to Sw. harja, Dan. herger, Sax. hergian, to ravage or lay waste.]

An instrument of agriculture, formed of pieces of timber sometimes crossing each other, and set with iron teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, and to cover seed when sown.

HAR'ROW, v.t. [Sw. harfva; Dan. harver.]

1. To draw a harrow over, for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed sown; as, to harrow land or ground.
2. To break or tear with a harrow. Will he harrow the valleys after thee? Job xxxix.
3. To tear; to lacerate; to torment. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word. Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.
4. To pillage; to strip; to lay waste by violence. [Not used.]
5. To disturb; to agitate. [Obs.] Shak.

HAR'ROW-ED, pp.

Broken or smoothed by a harrow.

HAR'ROW-ER, n.

1. One who harrows.
2. A hawk.

HAR'ROW-ING, ppr.

Breaking or leveling with a harrow.

HAR'RY, v.i.

To make harassing incursions. [Obs.] Beaum.

HAR'RY, v.t. [Sax. hergian, to strip; hyrwian, to upbraid; or W. herwa, to rove for plunder, to scout; her, a push.]

1. To strip; to pillage. [See Harrow.]
2. To harass.; to agitate; to tease. Shak.

HARSH, a. [G. harsch; Scot. harsk. In Dan. harsk, Sw. härsk, is rank, rancid.]

1. Rough to the touch; rugged; grating; as, harsh sand; harsh cloth; opposed to smooth. Boyle.
2. Sour; rough to the taste; as, harsh fruit.
3. Rough to the ear; grating; discordant; jarring; as, a harsh sound; harsh notes; a harsh voice. Dryden.
4. Austere; crabbed; morose; peevish. Civilization softens the harsh temper or nature of man.
5. Rough; rude; abusive; as, harsh words; a harsh reflection.
6. Rigorous; severe. Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. Dryden.

HARSH'LY, adv.

1. Roughly; in a harsh manner.
2. Sourly; austerely.
3. Severely; morosely; crabbedly; as, to speak or answer harshly.
4. Roughly; rudely; with violence; as, to treat a person harshly. Addison.
5. Roughly; with a grating sound; unpleasantly. It would sound harshly in her ears. Shak.

HARSH'NESS, n.

1. Roughness to the touch; opposed to softness and smoothness.
2. Sourness; austereness; as, the harshness of fruit.
3. Roughness to the ear; as, the harshness of sound or of a voice, or of verse. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, / The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope.
4. Roughness of temper; moroseness; crabbedness; peevishness. Shak.
5. Roughness in manner or words; severity; as, the harshness of reproof.

HARS'LE'T, or HAS'LET, n. [Ice. hasla. Qu.]

The heart, liver, lights, &c. of a hog.

HART, n. [Sax. heort; Dan. and Sw. hiort; G. hirsch; D. hert.]

A stag or male deer, an animal of the cervine genus.

HART'BEEST, n.

The quanga, or cervine antelope of Africa. Encyc.

HART-ROY'AL, n.

A plant.

HARTS'HORN, n.

1. The horn of the hart or male deer. The scrapings or raspings of this horn are medicinal, and used in decoctions, ptisans, &c. Hartshorn jelly is nutritive and strengthening. Hartshorn calcined by a strong and long continued heat, is changed into a white earth, which is employed in medicine as an absorbent. The salt of hartshon is a powerful sudorific, and hartshorn yields also a pungent volatile spirit. Encyc.
2. The jelly of hartshorn is simply gelatine; the earth remaining after calcination, is phosphate of lime; the salt and spirit of hartshorn are muriate of ammonia, with a little animal oil. Parr. Hartshorn plantain, a species of Plantago.