Chapter Harlock to Harping iron of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. A grain sieve. [Scot.]

Æolian harp. See under Æolian.

Harp seal (Zoöl.), an arctic seal 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. — Harp shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

Harp
(Harp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harped (härpt) p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.] [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.]

1. To play on the harp.

I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.

Rev. xiv. 2.

2. 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. "Harpings upon old themes." W. Irving.

Harping on what I am,
Not what he knew I was.

Shak.

To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Colloq.]

Harp
(Harp), v. t. 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.

Thou 'st harped my fear aright.

Shak.

Harpa
(||Har"pa) n. [L., harp.] (Zoöl.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; — so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.

Harpagon
(Har"pa*gon) n. [L. harpago, Gr. "arpa`gh hook, rake.] A grappling iron. [Obs.]

Harper
(Harp"er) n. [AS. hearpere.]

1. A player on the harp; a minstrel.

The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . .
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

Longfellow.

2. A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, — formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.

Harping
(Harp"ing) a. Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton.

Harping iron
(Harp"ing i`ron) [F. harper to grasp strongly. See Harpoon.] A harpoon. Evelyn.