Defn: A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
3. 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 shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.
HARP Harp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harped p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.] Etym: [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.]
1. To play on the harp. I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. Rev. xiv. 2.
2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; — usually with on or upon. "Harpings upon old themes." W. Irving. Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was. Shak. To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Collog.]
HARP
Harp, v. t.
Defn: To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop
or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a
harp; to hit upon.
Thou 'harped my fear aright. Shak.
HARPA
Har"pa, n. Etym: [L., harp.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; — so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
HARPAGON
Har"pa*gon, n Etym: [L. harpago, Gr.