The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.
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A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Muslim families.
Herring-shaped.
The snowy owl.
A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.
See Harrier.
See Hara-kiri.
Prognostication; soothsaying.
Like a hare.
To listen; to hearken.
To hearken.
A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.
The red-breasted merganser.
To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, especially the eastern coral snake, a small poisonous snake (Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius), ringed with red and black, found in the Southeastern United States. They are widely distributed in Southern and Central America;
A play or part of a play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.
Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
To harlot.
Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.
A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.
A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.
Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.
Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon.
Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.
A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica.
The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.
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.
One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.
One of a religious sect, founded in W/rtemburg 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.
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.
capable of being made harmonious or consistent.
The act of harmonizing.
To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
One who harmonizes.
An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.
The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
A city governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.
A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.
To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
One who harnesses.
The brains.
To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
A grappling iron.
A player on the harp; a minstrel.
Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies.
The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
A player on the harp; a harper.
To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
An harpooner.
One who throws the harpoon.
A female harper.
A harpsichord.
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.
someone who plays the harpsichord.
A fast-growing tree of India and East Indies (Harpullia cupanioides) yielding a wood used especially for building.
any of various tree of the genus Harpullia.
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.
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.
To harass; to plunder from.
A hinge.
A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
same as harassed.
One who harries.
A genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America.
To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
One who harries.
Harold or Henry; a nickname.
Rough; disagreeable; grating disagreeable to the touch. disagreeable to the taste. disagreeable to the ear.
In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.
The quality or state of being harsh.
See Haslet.
A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.
An Asiatic species of Cacalia (Cacalia Kleinia), used medicinally in India.
A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida.
large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward.
A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white.
To hearten; to encourage; to incite.
The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.
The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
See Haruspicy.
A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.
The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.
To reap or gather, as any crop.
The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.
An erect perennial Old World herb (Agrimonia eupatoria) of dry grassy habitats.
One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.
a. n., from Harvest, v. t.
Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
A man engaged in harvesting.
The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested.
To draw; to drag; to carry off by violence.
3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.
Hazard.
See Haze, v. t.
To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.
A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis sativa), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. The active psychoactive principle has been identified as tetrahydrocannabinol. See Bhang, and Ganja.
an insignia worn on the uniform to indicate years of service.
A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.
The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.
To shut or fasten with a hasp.
to repeatedly annoy; as, He is known to hassle his staff when he is overworked.
A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
2d pers. sing. pres. of Have, contr. of havest.
Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
To hasten; to hurry.
To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
One who hastens.
Hasty.
Same as Hastate.
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