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The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.

rticle of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

Clothing; dress.

An armed policeman in France. Thackeray.

The body of gendarmes.

A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.

That which causes injury, damage, or loss. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. Shak.

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. " 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.

r 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 musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.

In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.