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A grain sieve. [Scot.] Æolian harp. See under Æolian. Harp seal (Zoöl.), an arctic seal (Phoca Groenlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp she…

A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.

A grappling iron. [Obs.]

A player on the harp; a minstrel. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.

Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton.

A harpoon. Evelyn.

e wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem. [Written also harpins.] Totten.

A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope…

An harpooner. Grabb.

One who throws the harpoon.

A female harper. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

A harpsichord. [Obs.]

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 It is now superseded by the piano.

riters mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

See Cat-harping.

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.