HPage 57
- English Word Harpist Definition A player on the harp; a harper.
- English Word Harpoon Definition A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
- English Word Harpoon Definition To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
- English Word Harpooned Definition of Harpoon
- English Word Harpooneer Definition An harpooner.
- English Word Harpooner Definition One who throws the harpoon.
- English Word Harpooning Definition of Harpoon
- English Word Harpress Definition A female harper.
- English Word Harpsichon Definition A harpsichord.
- English Word Harpsichord Definition A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.
- English Word Harpy Definition A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
- English Word Harpy Definition One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- English Word Harpy Definition The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
- English Word Harpy Definition A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
- English Word Harquebus Definition Alt. of Harquebuse
- English Word Harquebuse Definition A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
- English Word Harrage Definition To harass; to plunder from.
- English Word Harre Definition A hinge.
- English Word Harridan Definition A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
- English Word Harried Definition of Harry