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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HAPPILY adv. 4 definitions

By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

HAPPINESS n. 3 definitions

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak.

HAPPY a. 3 definitions

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Boyle.

A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

nt in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

HARANGUE n. 3 definitions

eech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

Full of harangue.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.

HARASS v. 3 definitions

To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyer…

One who harasses.

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.

Harborous. [Obs.] A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous. Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2)

HARBINGER n. 3 definitions

A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger. I knew by these harbingers who were coming. Landor.

HARBOR n. 7 definitions

t and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter. [A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.

HARBOR MASTER n.

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Shelter; entertainment.[R.] Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.

One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.

Without a harbor; shelterless.

HARBOROUGH; HARBROUGH n.

A shelter. [Obs]. Spenser.