Word Meanings - HARPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A player on the harp; a minstrel. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow. 2. A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to HARPER)

• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• BRASS-VISAGED
  Impudent; bold.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• BRASS
  A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
• EMBLEMIZE
  To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• BRASSICACEOUS
  Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• BRASSY
  1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BRASSINESS
  The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.