Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HARP, n. [Sax. hearpa; G. harfe; D. harp; Sw. harpa; Dan. harpe; Fr. harpe; It. Sp. and Port. arpa.]

1. An instrument of music of the stringed kind, of a triangular figure, held upright and commonly touched with the fingers. Encyc. Johnson.
2. A constellation. Creech.