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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. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.

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.

er of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. Pope.

A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

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.

The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical. God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us. Locke.

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.

d in Würtemburg 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.

cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

The act of harmonizing.

n, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

One who harmonizes.

An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.

een the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.