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- English Word Harmful Definition Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
- English Word Harmine Definition An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Harming Definition of Harm
- English Word Harmless Definition Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
- English Word Harmless Definition Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.
- English Word Harmonic Definition Alt. of Harmonical
- English Word Harmonic Definition A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
- English Word Harmonica Definition A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
- English Word Harmonica Definition A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
- English Word Harmonical Definition Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
- English Word Harmonical Definition Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.
- English Word Harmonical Definition Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like.
- English Word Harmonicon Definition A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
- English Word Harmonics Definition The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
- English Word Harmonics Definition Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
- English Word Harmonies Definition of Harmony
- English Word Harmonious Definition Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.
- English Word Harmonious Definition Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.
- English Word Harmonious Definition Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.
- English Word Harmoniphon Definition An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
- English Word Harmonist Definition One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.
- English Word Harmonist Definition One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.
- English Word Harmonist Definition Alt. of Harmonite
- English Word Harmonite Definition One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.
- English Word Harmonium Definition A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
- English Word Harmonization Definition The act of harmonizing.
- English Word Harmonize Definition To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
- English Word Harmonize Definition To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
- English Word Harmonize Definition To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.
- English Word Harmonize Definition To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.