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.