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Harp   /hɑrp/   Listen
Harp

noun
1.
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.
2.
A pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade.
3.
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.  Synonyms: harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ.
verb
(past & past part. harped; pres. part. harping)
1.
Come back to.  Synonym: dwell.  "She is always harping on the same old things"
2.
Play the harp.



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"Harp" Quotes from Famous Books



... will conduct them to a hill-side where he will point out to them "the right path of a virtuous and noble education, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming." The rest of the tract is a redemption of this promise. To represent it by mere continued quotation would be of small use, and is perhaps unnecessary. We will, therefore, ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
... hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake; I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt For ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti
... Princess. He was a person gigantic in stature, and was slain by Suetonius in the battle which terminated the liberties of Britain. From him descended directly the Princes of Pontydwdlm, Mogyn of the Golden Harp (see the Mabinogion of Lady Charlotte Guest,) Bogyn-Merodac-ap-Mogyn, (the black fiend son of Mogyn,) and a long list of bards and warriors, celebrated both in Wales and Armorica. The independent Princes of Mogyn long held out against the ...
— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray
... and you'll hear and feel the far-away roar of the wires. But then the oaks are not connected with the distance, where there might be wind; and they don't ROAR in a gale, only sigh louder and softer according to the wind, and never seem to go above or below a certain pitch,—like a big harp with all the strings the same. I used to have a theory that those creek oaks got the wind's voice telephoned to them, so to speak, through ...
— Joe Wilson and His Mates • Henry Lawson
... glances that sometimes lightened on his face, made him cautious, and restrained his eagerness; while excessive consciousness kept her cheeks dyed with blushes, and her nerves vibrating sweet, wild music, like the strings of some aeolian harp when swept by the ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth


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