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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.

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 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.

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.

aving 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.

, 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.

The act of harmonizing.

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