loom-harness

(lém’hiir’nes), x. That part of a loom which moyes the warp-threads to make the cro ing or decu ation forming the shed in which the shuttle travels and leaves the weft-thread. The harne has heddles with loops for the warps, some of which are continually raised above the others and then depre ed, either in regular alternation (for plain weaving) or in a different order, as the pattern requires. looming (1é’ming), ». [Verbal n. of loom2, v.] 1. A coming vaguely into view.—2. A form of mirage in which distant objects, usually acro water, appear abnormally elevated above their true positions, this displacement being accompanied in many cases by a vertical magnification. Its [Monticello’s] elevation affords an opportunity of seeing a phenomenon which is rare at land though frequent at sea. The seamen call it looming. Philosophy is as yet in the rear of the seaman, for, so far from having accounted for it, she has not given it a name. Jefferson, Notes on Virginia (1787), p. 135. The inverted images which are often presented in looming are not beneath the object, as in the case of mirage on dry land, but above it, as if formed by reflection in the sky. Nature, XI. 49.