One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder.
Swift.
Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile
propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of
conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.
-- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going.
"Happy- go-lucky carelessness." W. Black.
||Ha*pu"ku (h*p"k), n. (Zoˆl.) A large and valuable food fish
||(Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one
||hundred pounds or more.
Haque"but (hk"bt), n. See Hagbut.
Ha"ra-ki`ri (h"r*k`r), n. [Jap., stomach cutting.] Suicide, by slashing
the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the
government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; - -
also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.
Ha*rangue" (h*rng"), n. [F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenga, It. aringa; lit.,
a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo arena,
hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring, anything round, ring of
people, G. ring. See Ring.] A speech addressed to a large public
assembly; a popular oration; a loud address to a multitude; in a bad
sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and
harangues are heard.
Milton.
Syn. -- Harangue, Speech, Oration. Speech is generic; an oration is an
elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to
the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an
harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues
the populace on the subject of their wrongs.
Ha*rangue", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harangued (h*rngd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Haranguing.] [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.] To make an harangue; to
declaim.
Ha*rangue", v. t. To address by an harangue.
Ha*rangue"ful (-fl), a. Full of harangue.
Ha*rang"uer (h*rng"r), n. One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing;
a declaimer.
With them join'd all th' haranguers of the throng, That thought to
get preferment by the tongue.
Dryden.
Har"ass (hr"as), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harassed (-ast); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harassing.] [F. harasser; cf. OF. harace a basket made of cords,
harace, harasse,a very heavy and large shield; or harer to set (a dog)
on.] To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to
weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure
excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.
[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march.
Bacon.
Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care.
Addison.
Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt.
Tennyson.
Syn. -- To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry;
disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble;
disturb; torment.
Har"ass, n. 1. Devastation; waste. [Obs.] Milton.