The harpies about all pocket the pool.
Goldsmith.
3. (Zoˆl.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus
Êruginosus). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged
American eagle (ThrasaÎtus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
Harpy bat (Zoˆl.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia
(esp. H. cephalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small,
insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). -- Harpy fly (Zoˆl.),
the house fly.
{ Har"que*bus Har"que*buse } (h‰r"kw*bs), n. [See Arquebus.] A firearm
with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the
15th century. The barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the
harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
Har"rage (hr"rj; 48) v. t. [See Harry.] To harass; to plunder from.
[Obs.] Fuller.
Har"re (h‰r"re), n. [OE., fr. AS. heorr, hÌor.] A hinge. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Har"ri*dan (hr"r*dan), n. [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.] A
worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the
pretty creature I had been used to see.
De Quincey.
Har"ri*er (-r), n. [From Hare, n.] (Zoˆl.) One of a small breed of
hounds, used for hunting hares. [Written also harier.]
Har"ri*er, n. [From Harry.] 1. One who harries.
2. (Zoˆl.) One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus
Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the
European marsh harrier (Circus Êruginosus), and the hen harrier (C.
cyaneus).
Harrier hawk(Zoˆl.), one of several species of American hawks of the
genus Micrastur.
Har"row (hr"r), n. [OE. harowe, harwe, AS. hearge; cf. D. hark rake, G.
harke, Icel. herfi harrow, Dan. harve, Sw. harf. √16.] 1. An
implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal
crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn
over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and
make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
2. (Mil.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down,
the frame being buried.
Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass
lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow. --
Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill. -- Under the harrow, subjected to
actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or
oppression.
Har"row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harrowed (-rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harrowing.] [OE. harowen, harwen; cf. Dan. harve. See Harrow, n.] 1. To
draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling
the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job xxxix. 10.
2. To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to
torment or distress; to vex.
My aged muscles harrowed up with whips.
Rowe.
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy
soul.
Shak.
Har"row, interj. [OF. harau, haro; fr. OHG. hara, hera, herot, or fr.
OS. herod hither, akin to E. here.] Help! Halloo! An exclamation of
distress; a call for succor; -- the ancient Norman hue and cry. "Harrow
and well away!" Spenser.
Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain.
Chaucer.
Har"row, v. t. [See Harry.] To pillage; to harry; to oppress. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Meaning thereby to harrow his people.