Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In classical mythology, the peculiarly shaped sword of Hermes, lent by him to Perseus, who with it cut off the head of Medusa. It is represented sometimes as curved like a sickle, and sometimes with a straight blade from which projects a curved point or tooth.
- n. In entomology, the inwardly projecting armature of the interior of the valves of the genital organs of lepidopterous insects.
- n. [capitalized] In ichthyology, a genus of fishes.
Examples
“Here we wel refreshed our selues whilest the Irish harpe sounded sweetely in our eares, and here we, who for the former extremities were in maner halfe dead, had our liues (as it were) restored vnto vs againe.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Consider (friendly reader) how Munster is delighted to harpe vpon one string, that when he can write nothing of an vnknowen nation which may cary any shew with it, he is faine either to bring in falshood, or often to repeat the same things, and so to become tedious vnto his reader: for he sayd a little before, that the”
“Will you coniure, & raise vp vnto vs from death to life old, Orpheus conferring with his wife Euridice (drawen backe againe down to the Stigian flood) & in these parts of the world, as it were by the bankes of snowey Tanais, & Hebrus descanting vpon his harpe?”
“Current Music: Claude Debussy, "Sonate pour flûte, alto et harpe”
“In like manner there is war between birds that get their living from the sea, as between the brenthus, the gull, and the harpe; and so between the buzzard on one side and the toad and snake on the other, for the buzzard preys upon the eggs of the two others; and so between the turtle-dove and the chloreus; the chloreus kills the dove, and the crow kills the so-called drummer-bird.”
“The piphinx, the harpe, and the kite are friends; as are the fox and the snake, for both burrow underground; so also are the blackbird and the turtle-dove.”
“Bet þuhte þe drem. þat he were. of harpe· ⁊ pipe· þan he nere.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Eurych mureþe may so lo {n} ge leste. þat heo schal liki wel vnwreste. for harpe. ⁊ pipe. ⁊ foweles song.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Riȝt so me grulde schille harpe. þos hule luste þiderward.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Bet þuhte þat heo were i {} shote. of harpe· ⁊ pipe· þan of þrote.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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