ft 
Haricot (PhaseoluS'l'ulgnris'l. 
a, flower ; b, ovule. 
harestane 
as, the harestane on the Borough Muir of Edin- 
burgh. [Scotch.] 
hare-thistle (har'this"!), . Same as hare's- 
lettu.ee. 
harfang (hiir'fang), n. [< Sw. harfang, lit, 
' hare-catcher' (also called haruggla, 'hare-owl') 
(cf. ODan. hare/any, hare-catching), < hare, = 
E. hare 1 , + J'anga, catch, seize, = E. fang. The 
AS. herefoug (L. ossifniiiits), an osprey, appar. 
involves here, army.] The snowy owl, Nyctea 
nivca or N. seancliaca : so called from its habit 
of preying upon hares. 
hargulatiert, . Same as argolet. 
haricot (har'i-ko), . [< F. haricot, a ragout of 
mutton, etc., also (in mod. use) the kidney- 
bean (appar. because used in such ragouts), 
< OF. lierigote. 
Cf. OF. Imrli- 
gote, a piece, 
morsel. Origin 
unknown.] 1. 
A kind of ra- 
gout of meat 
and vegeta- 
bles. 2. The 
kidney-bean or 
Frenchbean. 
3. In eeram., a 
red used for the 
whole surface of a piece, or forming a back- 
ground to other decoration. It is produced 
from an oxid of copper. 
haricot-bean (har'i-ko-ben), n. Same as hari- 
cot,^ 2. 
hariet, A Middle English form of harry. 
harier, . See harrier*. 
harift, n. See hairif. 
hari-kari, n. See hara-kiri. 
hariolationt (har"i-o-la'shon), . [< Ii.hariola- 
tio(n-), < hariolari, foretell, divine, < hariolua, 
a soothsayer, prophet ; cf. haruspex."] A sooth- 
saying ; a foretelling. Also ariolation. 
Ariolation, soothsaying, and such oblique idolatries. 
Sir T. Brovme, Vulg. Err., i. 3. 
hariott, n. An obsolete spelling of heriot. 
harish (har'ish), a. [< hare 1 + -isft 1 .] Re- 
sembling a hare in some respect; somewhat 
like a hare. 
hark (hark), v. [Formerly also heark; < ME. 
herken, < AS. *hercian, *hyrcian (not found, the 
only recorded form being that extended with 
verb-formative -n, namely, hercnian, hyrcnian, 
heorcnian (ME. herknen, E. harken, q. v.), = 
MD. horken, horcken, harcken = OFries. herkia, 
harkia, North Fries, harke = MLG. horken = 
OHG. horechen, MHG. horchen, horchen, G. hor- 
chen), hark, listen; a derivative, with formative 
-c, -k (cf. smir-k, stal-k, tal-k, dal-k, etc.), of AS. 
hyran, hieran, heran = D. hooren = OHG. hor- 
jan, MHG. G. horen, etc., hear: see hear. Cf. 
harken, the same word with additional suffix.] 
I.t trans. To hear; listen to. 
This king sit thus in his nobleye, 
Herkiny his minstralles hir thinges pleye 
Biforn him at the bord deliciously. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 70. 
To hark back, to call back to the original point. See 
hark back, under II. 
There is but one that harks me bade. 
Sir H. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, I., i. 9. 
II. intrans. To listen; harken: now chiefly 
used in the imperative, as an incitement to at- 
tention or action, as in hunting. See phrases 
below. 
These learned wonders witty Phalee marks, 
And needfully to euery Eule he harks. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Columnes. 
Hark, hark, my lord, what bells are these? 
Heywood, If you Know not Me, i 
We flnde a certain singular pleasure in hearking to such 
as be returned from some long voyage, and do report 
things which they have seen in strange countries. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, Amiot to the Headers. 
Pricking up his ears to hark 
If he could hear too in the dark. 
S. Butler, Hudibras. 
Hark'ee, Premium, you'll prepare lodgings for these gen- 
tlemen. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 1. 
Hark away! hark forward! hunting cries intended 
to urge the hounds and the chase onward. Hark back ! 
in hunting, a cry to the hounds, when they have lost the 
scent, directing them to return upon their course and 
recover it. Hence To hark back, to return to some 
previous point, as of a subject, and start fi-om that afresh. 
To hark back to our 2nd question, ..." Who was Sir 
William C'ummyn of Inverellochy?" 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), 
[Forewords, p. xxi. 
He ... harks back to matters he has already discussed. 
, Eng. Statesmen, p. 252. 
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hark-away (hark'a-wa"), n. A hunting cry. 
See hark, v. i. 
Then horse and hound fierce joy display, 
Exulting at the hark-away. 
M. Green, The Spleen. 
harken, hearken (har'kn), v. [< ME. inn-i.-t m . 
herknen, < AS. hercnian, hyr&rian, licnrt-iiiaii, 
harken, with verb-formative -n (as in listen, 
fasten 1 , etc.), < AS. "hei-cian (ME. herken, E. 
hark), \ hyran, hieran, heran, hear: see hark 
and hear.'] I. intrans. To listen; lend the ear; 
attend or give heed to what is uttered; hear 
with attention, obedience, or compliance. 
The kyng of kynggez harkenyd of that case, 
He taryd not nor lenger wold abide. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2949. 
Hearken, Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judg- 
ments which I teach you. Deut. iv. 1. 
Orpheus assembled the wild beasts to come in heards 
to harken to his musicke, and by that meanes made them 
tame. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 4. 
We at length hearkened to the terms of peace. 
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. 
Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. 
Tennyson, (Enone. 
II. trans. 1. To hear by listening. [Poetical.] 
Whan thei that serued herde the noyse of the peple, 
thei ronne to the wyndowes to herkene what it myght be. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 422. 
But here she comes : I fairly step aside, 
And hearken, if I may, her business here. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 169. 
Where sat the blackbird-hen in spring, 
Hearkening her bright-billed husband sing. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 188. 
2. To hear with attention ; regard. 
You, proud judges, hearken what God saith in his holy 
book. Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
This king of Naples, being an enemy 
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 
He sat, with eager face hearkening each word, 
Nor speaking aught. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 275. 
To harken OUtt, to hunt out; run down ; find by search. 
He has employed a fellow this half-year all over Eng- 
land to hearken him out a dumb woman. 
B. Joneon, Epiccene, i. 1. 
Come, reverend doctor, let us harken out 
Where the young prince remains. 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, v. 1. 
harkener, hearkener (hark'ner), n. [< ME. 
herknere; < harken + -cr 1 .] One who harkens; 
a listener. 
Hearkeners of rumours and tales. Bant, Alvearie. 
harl (harl), v. [Also haurl; < ME. harlen, drag, 
pull.] I. trans. 1. To drag upon the ground; 
drag along with force or violence ; trail. [Ob- 
solete or Scotch.] 
The hasel & the haj-thorne were harled al samen, 
With roge raged mosse rayled ay-where. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 744. 
And harleden heom out of the londe, 
And with tormens manie buy slowe. 
MS. Laud. 108, f. 166. (Halliwett.) 
2. To entangle; confuse. [Prov. Eng.] 3. 
To cut a slit in one of the hind legs of (a dead 
animal), in order to suspend it. [Prov. Eng.] 
4. To rough-cast (a wall) with lime. [Scotch.] 
Built of stone and rough-cast, harled they called it there. 
G. MacDonald, Warlock o' Glenwarlock. 
We have in Scotland far fewer ancient buildings, above 
all in country places ; and those that we have are all of 
hewn or harled masonry. 
R. L. Stevenson, The Foreigner at Home. 
II. intrans. 1. To be dragged or pulled. 
[Scotch.] 
He ... drew a stroke, 
Till skin in blypes cam haurlin' 
Afl 's nieves that night. 
Burns, Halloween. 
2. To trail ; drag one's self. [Scotch.] 
A pretty enjoyment for me to go away harling here and 
harling there out o'er the country when I cae scarcely put 
my foot to the ground to cross the room. 
W. Black, In Far Lochaber, vil. 
harl (harl), n. [< harl, v.] 1. The act of drag- 
ging. [Scotch.] 2. Flax, hemp, wool, hair, or 
other filaments as drawn out or hackled. 3. 
A barb of a feather from a peacock's tail, used 
as a hackle in dressing fly-hooks. Also herl, 
hurl. 
Herl, or harl, as some persons call it the little plume- 
lets or fibres growing on each side of the tail feathers of 
the peacock. Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 589. 
4. Property obtained by means not accounted 
honorable. 5. A considerable but indefinite 
quantity. [Scotch.] 
- Ony harl of health he has is aye about meal-time. 
Gait, Sir Andrew Wylie, II. 244. 
6. A leash (three) of hounds, [Prov. Eng.] 
harlequin 
harlan (hiir'lan), n. 1. Same as harle. 2. 
The pintail-duck, Diifiln nt'iitit. Rev. C. Swain- 
son, 1885. [Wexford, Ireland.] 
harle (harl), re. A merganser; specifically, the 
red-breasted merganser, Menjus serrator. Also 
harlan, herald. [Orkney Islands.] 
Harleian (har'le-an), a. [< Barley (see def.) 
4- -aw.] Pertaining or relating to Robert Har- 
ley, Earl of Oxford, an English politician (1661- 
1724), and his son Edward: as, the Harleian col- 
lection (of several thousand manuscripts, now 
in the British Museum); the Harleian Miscel- 
lany (reprints from their collection of rare 
pamphlets, tracts, etc.). 
Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum is a 
Chartulary of Heading Abbey. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. 8.), p. 297. 
harlequin (har'le-kin or -kwin), n. and a. [For- 
merly also harlekin, harlaken ; = D. harlekijn = 
G. Dan. Sw. harlekin, < OF. harlequin (15th cen- 
tury), F. arlequin (> prob. Sp. arlequin, arnequin 
= Pg. arlequim = It. arlecchinp), a harlequin; 
prob. a later form (associated with a popular ety- 
mology which connected the word with Charles 
Qttiret, Charles V.)of OF. herlequin, herlekin, hele- 
quin, halequin, hellekin, hierlekin, hellequin (13th 
century), a demon, Satan, earlier and usually 
occurring in the phrase la mesnie hellekin (la 
maisnie hierlekin, etc., ML. harlequini familia, 
ME. Hurlewaynes kynne, or Hurlewaynes meyne), 
in popular superstition a troop of yelling de- 
mons that haunted lonely places or appeared 
in tempests, the OF. mesnie (maisnie, maisnee, 
meisnee, ME. mainee, meinee, meyne, etc., E. obs. 
many 2 ), a family, company, troop, in this phrase 
being appar. orig. an explanatory addition, giv- 
ing hellekin the appearance of a quasi-genitive 
of a personal name, as reflected in the ML. and 
ME. expressions; hellekin, hellequin, etc., itself 
meaning orig. 'troop of hell' (lit. 'hell's kin,'< 
OLG. "helle kin = AS. helle cynn (einn): see hell 1 
and kin 1 ). Hell and its devils were very promi- 
nent features of the medieval stage. The de- 
mon Alichino in Dante (Inf., xxi. 118) prob. 
owes his name to the same OLG. source.] I. . 
1 . In early Italian and later in French comedy, 
the buffoon or clown, one of the regular charac- 
ter-types. Ho was noted for his gluttonous buffoonery, 
afterward modified by something of intriguing malice. On 
the modern stage he generally appears in pantomime as 
the lover of Columbine, masked, dressed in tight party- 
colored clothes covered with spangles, armed with a magic 
wand or wooden sword, and plays amusing tricks on the 
other performers. 
I, like a harlakene in an Italian comoedy, stand making 
faces at both their follies. lie of Gulls (1633). 
He who play'd the Harlequin, 
After the Jest still loads the Scene, 
Unwilling to retire, tho' weary. 
Prior, Written in Mezeray s Hist. France. 
Hence 2. A buffoon in general; a fantastic 
fellow; a droll. 3. In entom., the magpie- 
moth, Abraxas grossulariata. 4. The Oriental 
or noble opal.=Syn. See jester. 
II. a. 1. Party-colored; extremely or fantas- 
tically variegated in color : specifically applied 
in zoology to sundry animals. 2. Differing in 
color or decoration ; fancifully varied, as a set 
of dishes. See harlequin service, below. 
She had six lovely little harlequin cups on a side-shelf 
in her china-closet, . . . rose, and brown, and gray, and 
vermilion, and green, and blue. 
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Real Folks, xiii. 
Harlequin bat, an Indian chiropter, Scotophilus ornalus, 
of variegated coloration.-. Harlequin beetle, a longicorn 
coleopter of South America, Acrocinus longimanus. with 
red, gray, and black elytra. Harlequin brant, the Amer- 
ican white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons gainbeli. Also 
called pied brant, prairie-brant, speckled brant, and speckle- 
belly. Harlequin cabbage-bug. See cabbage-bug. 
Harlequin duck, a sea-duck of the subfamily Fuliguli- 
na;, formerly known as Anas or Fuliijula hittnonica, now 
Hiatrionicus minutus or H. torquatux (Coues); the male 
is of a blackish color, fantastically spotted with white 
Harlequin Duck (Histrionictis 
