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noun. An instrument having an upright triangular frame consisting of a pillar, a curved neck, and a hollow back containing the sounding board, with usually 46 or 47 strings of graded lengths that are played by plucking with the fingers.

noun. Any of various ancient and modern instruments of similar or U-shaped design.

noun. A harmonica.

noun. Something, such as a pair of vertical supports for a lampshade, that resembles a harp.

intransitive verb. To play a harp.

phrasal verb. To talk or write about to an excessive and tedious degree; dwell on.

To play on the harp; play as on a harp.

To speak often of something, especially so often as to be tiresome or vexing; speak with reiteration; especially, to speak or write with monotonous repetition: usually with on or upon.

To give forth as a harp gives forth sound; give expression to, or utter.

To produce some specified effect upon by playing on the harp.

To sift or separate by means of a harp or screen: as, to harp grain; to harp sand. See harp, n., 4 and 5.

noun. A musical instrument with strings which are played by being plucked with the fingers.

noun. [capitalized] A constellation, otherwise called Lyra or the Lyre.

noun. Same as harper, 2.

noun. An oblong implement, consisting of a frame filled up with parallel wires resembling the strings of a harp, used as a screen; a grain-sieve.

noun. A sparred shovel for filling coal.

noun. In a seutching-machine, a grating through which the refuse falls as the revolving beater drives the fibers forward.

noun. A figure, likened to a harp or saddle, on the back of the adult harp-seal.

noun. Hence The harp-seal, or harper.

intransitive verb. To play on the harp.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence.

transitive verb. 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.

noun. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

noun. A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

noun. A grain sieve.

noun. See under Æolian.

noun. an arctic seal (Phoca Grœnlandica). 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; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur.

noun. a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

noun. A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.

noun. A harmonica.

verb. To repeatedly mention a subject.

verb. To play on (a harp or similar instrument).

verb. To play (a tune) on the harp.

verb. To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

noun. a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

verb. come back to

noun. a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

verb. play the harp

noun. a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

"So, perhaps a harp is the best instrument for a bone musician."

couched harp  david's harp  dital harp  double harp  double-action pedal harp  

harped  harping  harpist  

free-reed instrument  ingeminate  iterate  play  reiterate  

Arp  Sharp  Sharpe  Tharp  arp  

bass  bell  bugle  chord  cornet  

French harp  Irish harp  about  aeolian harp  cithara  

harped  harpes  harping  harps