Harmel
(Har"mel) n. [Ar. harmal.] (Bot.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore
the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.
Harmful
(Harm"ful) a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype.
—Harm"ful*ly, adv. — Harm"ful*ness, n.
Harmine
(Har"mine) n.[See Harmaline.] (Chem.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline and obtained
from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.
Harmless
(Harm"less) a.
1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton
Syn. — Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; uninjured; unharmed.
—Harm"less*ly, adv.- Harm"less*ness, n.
Harmonic
(Har*mon"ic) Harmonical
(Har*mon"ic*al) a. [L. harmonicus, Gr. "armoniko`s; cf. F. harmonique.
See Harmony.]
1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass.
Pope. 2. (Mus.) Relating to harmony, — as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory
sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous
body.
3. (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; —
said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines, motions, and the like.
Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. - -
Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy
to musical consonances. — Harmonic motion, the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular
PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a
fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two or
more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob
of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. — Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion.
— Harmonic series or progression. See under Progression. — Spherical harmonic analysis, a
mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object
the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a
large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of
solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic
functions. Thomson & Tait. — Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of
comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; — called
also harmonia, and harmony. — Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the
common chord.
Harmonic
(Har*mon"ic) n. (Mus.) A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple
of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
Harmonica
(Har*mon"i*ca) n. [Fem. fr. L. harmonicus harmonic. See Harmonic, n. ]
