harrisite

[Probably from its discoverer.] Min.: A variety of Dana's Chalcocite, the Copper Glance of the Brit. Mus. Cat. Its colors are lead gray and bluish-black. It is a pseudomorph after galena, with which it agrees in cleavage. har-rōw, *har-ewe, *har-ou, *har-ow, *har karpyia, from Greek harpyiai, from harpazo =to seize.] A. As substantive : 1. Cla . Antiq .: Three fabulous winged monsters, daughters of Neptune and Terra, represented with the face of a woman, the body of a vulture, and fin gers armed with sharp claws; their names were cogn. with Dut. hark a rake; Icel. herfi =a har row; Dan. harv =a harrow; harve =to harrow; Sw. hark a (s.) a rake, (v.) to rake; harf =a harrow; harfva =to harrow; Ger. harke a rake; harken =to rake; Gr. kerkis =a peg, pin, or skewer.] Agric.: A large rake or frame with teeth, drawn over the ground to level it, stir the soil, destroy weeds, or cover seed. The shapes of the frame are "The harsh and discordant notes, by which savage Cogan: Theol. Dis. on Jewish Dispensation. 4. Austere; rough; crabbed; morose; peevish; severe. "Leaving harsh masters and quarrelsome comrades." Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxiii. 5. Rough; rude; severe; unkind; unfavorable. "His [Eumenes] speech was not harsh or churlish." North : Plutarch , p. 503. harsh-resounding, adj. Grating on the ear. ( Shakesp.: Richard II., i. 3.) harsh, v . i . [HARSH, a.] To sound harshly; to creak. ( Stanyhurst .) harsh-en, v. t. [Eng. harsh; -en.] To make harsh. "A soured and harshened spirit."-C. Kingsley: Alton Locke , ch. xxxii. hart-ine, hart-In, s . [Named from ( Ober ) hart near Gloggnitz, where it occurs.] Min .: A white resin separated by ether from a resin derived from brown coal. ( Dana .) IMG:content-1002.png:[blocks in formation] harts'-horn, s. [Eng. harts =hart's, and horn .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Originally : The horn or antler of the hart, Cervus elaphus . "[They] then come to themselves, almost or quite; Which saves much hartshorn , salts, and sprinkling faces." Byron: Beppo, lxxxix. 1. Bot.: The same as HARTSHORN-PLANTAIN (q. v.). *2. Phar .: Formerly many very extraordinary medicinal virtues were attributed to the horns of the male deer. They were submitted to dry distil. lati on and yielded the same products as bones, con- sisting chiefly of ammonia and volatile bases. The liquid, known as spirits of hartshorn, had a power- ful smell, and was used in nervous complaints and fainting fits The shavings of the horns were used for making jelly. [AMMONIA.] Bot.: Plant a go coronopus . harts-tongue, s. hart-wõrt, s. [Eng. hart , and wort (q. v.).] Bot .: The umbelliferous genus Tordylium. Tor- dylium maximum , a pinnate plant, with one to three pairs of pinnatifid leaflets. [TORDYLIUM.] här-um-scär-ŭm, a. & 8. [A reduplication either from hare , v., or scare . ] B. As subst.: A giddy, rash, harebrained person. ha-rus-pi-ca-tion, s. [As if from a Low Lat. haruspicatio ; haruspex = a diviner among the Etruscans who foretold future events from the in- spection of entrails of victims.] Divination by the inspection of the entrails of victims. ha-rŭs'-piçe, s . [ARUSPEX.] ha-rus-pic-ỹ, s. [ARUSPICY.] har'-věst, *her-fest, *her-vest, s. & a. [A. S. hærfest crop, autumn; cogn. with Dut. herfst ; Icel. haust ; Dan. & Sw. höst ; Ger. herbst ; M. H. Ger. her best; O. H. Ger. herpist , from the same root as Lat. carpo =to pluck; Gr. karpos =fruit.] IMG:content-1003.jpg:[blocks in formation] "And Harvest smeared with treading grapes." Golding: Ovid; Metamorphoses ii. 2. That which is reaped and gathered in; the crop of ripe corn or grain gathered into barns. 3. The product or result of any labor; the effect, the consequence. B. As adj .: Of or pertaining to harvest; engaged in harvest. "And let them be merry all harvest time long." Tu er: Husbandry; August. Bot.: Gentian a pneumonanthe . harvest-bug, s. Zool.: Leptus (formerly called Acarus ) autum- nalis. The resemblance to a bug is in its depre ed, oval body, its color, and its blood-sucking propen sities. It is not, however, a genuine bug; it is a species of the order A car in a. In certain years, in autumn, it abounds on gra and other plants. Climbing thence it gets on the person of any one sitting down, or even walking, inserts its sucker into the body, and gorges itself with blood. Called also Trombidium autumn ale . IMG:content-1004.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1005.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1006.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Like to a harvest - man that's tasked to mow." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , i. 3. 2. Zool .: [HARVEST-SPIDER.] harvest-month, s. The month of September. harvest-moon, s. The moon near its full at the time of harvest, or about the autumnal equinox, when it rises at nearly the same hour for several IMG:content-1007.png:[graphic] 1. A man who reaps and gathers in the harvest. 2. A machine for cutting grain or gra ; a reaper, harvester-cutter, s. One of the section knives of a harvester. Harvester - cutter grinder : A machine adapted to the grinding of the section knives of harvesters, which are riveted to the knife-bar. har'-věst-le , a . [Eng. harvest ; -le .] Barren. Harvey-ized armor, s. Armor hardened by a proce invented by a Mr. Harvey. [ARMOR, 1. (2).] hăş, part . of v. [HAVE.] The third person singular of the pres. indic. of the verb to have . has-been, s . Anything old or ancient, as a cus tom, .; especially used in commendation in the phrase, a good old has - been ; anything past its prime. hasch-îsh, hash-ish, hash-eesh, s . [Turk. and Arab.] An intoxicating drug made in Turkey from the dried leaves of hemp, the same as the East Indian Bhang (q. v.).