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noun

Harl n.

A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.

A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies. (Written also herl)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... first to make a critical study of this legend. His conclusions appear to me narrow and extreme. Cf. Analecta fr., t. ii., pp. xvii.-xx. Father Ehrle mentions two manuscripts, one in the British Museum, Harl., 47; the other at Oxford, Christ College, cod. 202. Zeitschrift, 1883, ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... Stephens printed these fragments was found among some loose papers placed in his hands by the Earl of Oxford, and is now in the British Museum; Harl. manuscripts 6462. It is a thin paper volume of the quarto size, written in the hand of one of Bacon's servants, with corrections, erasures, and interlineations ...

— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon