Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

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.