Webster's Dictionary 1828

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HARMONIOUSLY

HARMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With just adaptation and proportion of parts to each other.Distances, motions, and quantities of matter harmoniously adjusted in this great variety of our ...

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HARMONIOUSNESS

HARMO'NIOUSNESS, noun Proportion and adaption of parts; musicalness.1. Agreement; concord.

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HARMONIST

H'ARMONIST, noun A musician; a composer of music.1. One who brings together corresponding passages, to show their agreement.

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HARMONIZE

H'ARMONIZE, verb intransitive To be in concord; to agree in sounds.1. To agree; to be in peace and friendship; as individuals or families.2. To agree in sense or purport; as, th...

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HARMONIZED

H'ARMONIZED, participle passive Made to be accordant.

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HARMONIZER

H'ARMONIZER, noun One that brings together or reconciles.1. In music, a practical harmonist.

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HARMONIZING

H'ARMONIZING, participle present tense Causing to agree.

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HARMONOMETER

HARMONOM'ETER, noun An instrument or monochord for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds.

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HARMONY

H'ARMONY, noun [Latin harmonia; Gr. a setting together, a closure or seam, agreement, concert, to fit or adapt, to square.]1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any ...

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HARMOST

H'ARMOST, noun [Gr. to regulate.] In ancient Greece, a Spartan governor, regulator or perfect.

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HARMOTOME

H'ARMOTOME, noun [Gr. a joint, and to cut.] In mineralogy, cross-stone, or staurolite, called also pyramidical zeolite. [See Cross-stone.

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HARNESS

H'ARNESS, noun1. Armor; the whole accouterments or equipments of a knight or horseman; originally perhaps defensive armor, but in a more modern and enlarged sense, the furniture...

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HARNESSED

H'ARNESSED, participle passive Equipped with armor; furnished with the dress for draught; defended.

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HARNESSER

H'ARNESSER, noun One who puts on the harness of a horse.

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HARNESSING

H'ARNESSING, participle present tense Putting on armor or furniture for draught.

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HARP

H'ARP, noun1. An instrument of music of the stringed kind, of a triangular figure, held upright and commonly touched with the fingers.2. A constellation.H'ARP, verb intransitive...

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HARPER

H'ARPER, noun A player on the harp.

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HARPING

H'ARPING, participle present tense Playing on a harp; dwelling on continually.H'ARPING, noun A continual dwelling on.Making infinite merriment by harpings upon old themes.H'ARPI...

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HARPING-IRON

H'ARPING-IRON, noun A harpoon, which see.

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HARPIST

H'ARPIST, noun A harper.

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HARPOON

HARPOON', noun [Gr. to seize with the claws; probably Latin rapio, by transposition of letters.]A harping-iron; a spear or javelin, used to strike whales for killing them. It co...

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HARPOONED

HARPOON'ED, participle passive Struck, caught or killed with a harpoon.

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HARPOONER

HARPOON'ER, noun One who uses a harpoon; the man in a whale-boat who throws the harpoon.

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HARPOONING

HARPOON'ING, participle present tense Striking with a harpoon.

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HARPSICHORD

H'ARPSICHORD, noun [harp and chord.] An instrument of music with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys. The striking of these keys moves certain little jacks,...

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HARPY

H'ARPY, noun [Latin harpyia; Gr. to seize or claw.]1. In antiquity, the harpies were fabulous winged monsters, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with their f...

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HARQUEBUSE

HARQUEBUSE. [See Arquebuse.]