3. (Zoöl.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus æruginosus). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaëtus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. Harpy bat (Zoöl.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.
HARQUEBUS; HARQUEBUSE
Har"que*bus, Har"que*buse, n. Etym: [See Arquebus.]
Defn: A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
HARRAGE
Har"rage v. t.. Etym: [See Harry.]
Defn: To harass; to plunder from. [Obs.] Fuller.
HARRE
Har"re, n. Etym: [OE., fr. AS. heorr, hior.]
Defn: A hinge. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HARRIDAN
Har"ri*dan, n. Etym: [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.]
Defn: A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag. Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see. De Quincey.
HARRIER
Har"ri*er, n. Etym: [From Hare, n.] (Zoöl.)