harshly 
harshly (hiirsh'li), adv. In a harsh 
roughly; austerely; unkindly. 
He plied his ear with truths, 
Not harshly thunder'd forth, or rudely press'd, 
But like his purpose, gracious, kind, and sweet. 
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manner; or perhaps hartwort, < hcorot, hart, + crop, 
crop.] Same as Itartberry. 
hartet, An obsolete spelling of heart. 
hartebeest, w. See hartbeest. 
hartent, t. An obsolete spelling of hearten. 
' Hartford fern. SamerZZ^n" 
(harsh'nes), n. [Early mod. E. also hartin (hiir'tin), . [< (Ober)hart (see def. ) + 
: ; < harsh + -ness.] The quality or _j w 2.] A fossil resin (C 1Q H 17 O) resembling bar- 
~)T iifliicr nfiTSn. 4.^4-n .nni_ A V.-.4- . ,.*.iii_/ i_ *i 
harshness 
ha r riyhness 
condition of being harsh. 
Dates, if they be eaten, they are good for the harrishe- 
nes or roughnes of the throte. Turner, Herbal (1562). 
tite, massive, but crystallizing from rock-oil in 
needles belonging to the trimetric system. It 
is found in the lignite of Oberhart, Austria. 
If they differ from the verses of others, they differ for hartite (har'tit), n. [< (Ober)hart (see def.) + 
""'mhnl' f they *" to ften di8tln S U A* d n b siuto 1 " ~ ite ^ 3 A f os . sil resin ( C 3 H 5) resembling hartin, 
^ and found like it in the lignite of Oberhart, 
Tis not enough no harshness give offence, Anatrip 
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Tr.li /I_-_L/I- \ 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 364. Hartleian (hart le-an), o. Pertaining or relat- 
Syn. Asperity, etc. (see acrimony) ; austerity, churlish- j n ? to David Hartley, M. D. (1705-57), an Eng- 
lish metaphysician generally regarded as the 
founder of the associationist school. His ' ' Ob- 
servations on Man " was published in 1749. 
Their mode of thinking [that of the Philosophic Radi- 
cals] was ... a combination of Bentham's point of view 
with . . . the Hartleian metaphysics. 
J. S. Mill, Autobiog., p. 105. 
ness, rigor, roughness, bluntness, hardness, sternness, cru- 
elty, rudeness ; discordance, dissonance, 
harskt, a. See harsh. 
harslet, n. See haslet. 
harst (harst), n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of 
harvest. 
harstigite (hare 'ti- git), n. [< Harstig (see 
def.) + -ite%.] A silicate of aluminium, man- Hartogia (har-to'ji-a), n. [NL., named after 
ganese, calcium, and magnesium, occurring in John Hartog, an early traveler.] A genus of 
yellow to brown orthorhombic crystals at the plants, of the natural order Celastrinece, distin- 
Harstig mine, Paysberg, Sweden. guished from related genera by having the sta- 
harstrongt (har'strdng), n. [Also horestrang, mens located between the lobes of the disk, and 
horestrong (with same initial element as hore- by its ovoid fruit and serrate leaves. It includes 
hound, hoarhound) ; < D. harstrang, < G. Itarn- only a single species, B. Canensis, a South African shrub 
strenge, strangury, < harn, urine, + strana, a or low tree, the wood of which is remarkably hard, tough, 
string (vtranairren straTio-lfll p <ttrnnalr~\ flne-grained, and susceptible of polish. The Dutch colo- 
ig (kirangieren, strangle; . see strangle.] nUU call it i adle . wood f,. om the chief use to which they 
Peucedanum officinale, a common umbelliferous put it. it is also used for veneering, 
plant of Europe, formerly used in medicine. See hartroyal (hart'roi'al), . If. Same as hart 
Peucedanum. An extract called peucedanin was ob- royal (which see, uncler harfl), 2. A plant, a 
tained from the root, which has been found to be iden- species of plantain. 
rortj hart's-ballst (harts'balz), . Same as hart's- 
-^-.*-o- truffles. 
hart 1 (hart), n. [< ME. hart, hert, heart, < AS. hart's-clover (harts ' klo ' ver), n. [Cf. hart- 
heort,heorot = D.hert=OliOr.hiruz,hirz,'MS.Q. clover.] A plant, Mclilotus offidnalis, the yel- 
hirz, Gr. hirss, now hirsch = Icel. hjortr = Sw. 1 melilot: so called, it is said, because deer 
Dan. hjort, a hart ; with formative -t, = L. cer- delight to feed on it. Also called hart's-trefoil. 
vus = W.carw, a hart, stag; lit. 'horned,' = Gr. hart s-eyet, Wild dittany. Topsell. 
; horned, < ncpaf (itepaT-), a horn, akin to E. hartshorn (harts'hdrn), n. [= D. hartshoorn; 
as hart's, poss., + horn; cf. G. hirschhorn = Sw. 
hjorthorn = Dan. hjortehorn.] 1. The antler 
of the hart or stag, Cervus elaphus. The constit- 
uent elements of deciduous antlers differ materially from 
those of persistent horns, as of the ox, and are identical, 
or nearly so, with those of bone. These antlers were for- 
merly much used as a source of ammonia, and the products 
of their distillation were employed in medicine under the 
name of the volatile salt of hartshorn, or spirit of harts- 
horn; but they have now been superseded by simpler 
preparations of ammonia and ammonium carbonate, often 
called by the same name. See ammonia, 1. 
Hartshorn has been usually imported into this country 
from Germany, in the form of shavings. These are with- 
out smell and taste, pliable, and of an ivory yellow color. 
U. S. JXspensatory, p. 1659. 
2. Spirit of hartshorn; ammonia. 3. In bot. 
See hartshorn-plantain Jelly of hartshorn, a nu- 
tritive jelly formerly obtained from shavings of the horns 
of harts, now procured from shavings of the bones of 
calves. 
horn: see horn.] 1. The male of the red deer, 
Cervus elaphus, the female of which is called 
hind; a stag, especially an adult stag or male 
red deer after its fifth year, when the sur-royal 
or crown-antler has appeared. The term belongs 
properly to the species named, but is extended to related 
kinds of deer. See antler, hindl, stag. 
The werwolf an huge hert hadde hunted. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), I. 2569. 
There are wild Bores & wild Hard in that Forrest 
(Veronne). Coryat, Crudities, I. 13. 
A creature that was current then 
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
My blood leaped as nimbly and joyously as a young 
hart on the mountains of Bether. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 62. 
2. In her., a stag used as a bearing. It is taken 
as a stag in its sixth year or older, but the word , ca ' v . e8 ^ 
stag is not used in blazon.- Hart of grease See hartshorn-plantain (narts'h6rn-plan'tan), n. 
grease, 2. Hart Of ten, a hart with ten tines or branches A species of plantain, Plantago Coronopus, corn- 
on his horns. mon in Europe : so called from its furcated 
Scar. A great, large deer! leaves. See bucWs-horn. 
John^A^hartoft^ hart's-thorn (harts'th&rn), n. Same as buck- 
ft '"""'Tjonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2. '*> Bhamnuscatharticus. 
Hart royal. "A hart that escapes after having been pur- ^ ^^ Q . (harts'tung), n. [< ME. hertes 
sued by royalty was ever afterward termed a hart royal; tun 9 e , liertys tonge, hertes tounge; not found in 
and if the king or queen made proclamation for his safe re- AS. ; = MHG. hirzes zunge, G. hirschzunge.] A 
turn L'hewas then .called a hart royal proclaimed." (Hal- fern, Scolopendrium vulgare, with long simple 
black, s fronds; also, rarely, Polypodium Singaporiamtm 
and Acrostichum cervinum. See Scolopendrium. 
(harts 'tre 'foil), n. Same as 
(har'tal), w. 
heart. 
[Hind, hartal.] Orpiment. 
. , . . 
hartbeest, hartebeest (hart-best), rc. [South- 
African D. hartebeest, < harte, appar. a modi- 
' D " = K * 1 
+ beest = E. i 
Alcelaphus caama. 
I have seen, at break of day, hartebeeste, wildebeest*, 
A large African antelope, 
Also called caama. 
'"Iz), n. A 
v , supposed to 
aphrodisiac, now sold under the name of lyco- 
perdon nuts. Formerly also called hart's-balls 
and deer-balls. 
, , , , 
eland, and sassabi within easy rifle range :ot my position. hartWOFt (hart'wert), . One of several um- 
hart* tv,-^^ K\ Pop ;7' Jf -' XXIX - 618 - belliferous plants of the genera Tordylium, Se- 
hartberry (hart ber''i), n. ; pi. hartberries (-iz). seli, and Bupleurum, especially Tordylium maxi- 
L-MJii. not tound ; AS. heort-, heorot-, heorut- mum, native of southern Europe and northern 
berge, berry of the buckthorn, < heort, heorot, Africa, and sparingly found in England. See 
hart, + berie, berge, berry.] The bilberry of Tordylium. 
Europe or blueberry of Scotland, Vaecinium hartun-scarum (har'um-skar'um), a. and n. 
MyrMlus. See bilberry. Also called hart-crop. [Also formerly harem-scarem ; a riming com- 
hart-clovert, n. [ME. herteclover, hartelaver pound of uncertain elements, now appar. ac- 
(gtossmg L. tnfohum), < AS. heort-claifre, heorot- com. to hare*, as a type of unreasoning haste 
cte/re glossing cynocephaleon and camedris, < and instability, and to scare, in allusion to its 
heart, heorot, hart, + cla>fre, clover.] A plant, timidity. Cf. E. dial, liavey-scavey, helter-skel- 
Medicago maculata. Also heart-clover. ter (in Cumberland), also wavering, doubtful 
hart-crop (hart krop), n [ME. not found ; AS. (Grose).] I. a. Harebrained; flighty; giddy; 
heorot-crop (once), a plant, appar. buckthorn, rash 
harvest 
He seemed a mighty rattling harem-scarcm gentleman. 
Mine. D'Arblay, Diary, I. 358. 
She was one of the first who brought what I call harum- 
scarum manners into fashion. 
Miss Edgeworth, Belinda, iii. 
Don't take these flights 
Upon moon-shiny nights, 
With gay harum-scarum young men. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 162. 
They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own 
son, a harum-scarum lad, who ran away, and then was 
sent to India. Thackeray, Newcomes, v. 
II. n. A giddy, harebrained, or rash person. 
When I married I was a girl like you, only ten times 
wilder, the greatest harum-scarum in the county ! 
Mrs. Craik, Agatha's Husband, xiL 
haruspex (ha-rus'peks), n. ; pi. luiruspices (-pi- 
sez). [L., also written, less correctly, anspex, 
lit. inspector of entrails, < *haru- = Skt. hira, 
entrails (akin to ^o/lddfc, entrails, xopdq, gut (> 
ult. E. cord 1 , chord, q. v. ), and to E. yarn, q. v. ), 
+ specere, view, inspect: see species, spectacle, 
etc. Cf. L. hariolus, a soothsayer, a word con- 
taining the same element haru-: see hariola- 
tion.] One of a class of minor priests or sooth- 
sayers in ancient Rome, of Etrurian origin, 
whose function it was to inspect the entrails 
of victims killed in sacrifice, and by them, as 
well as by certain natural phenomena, to in- 
terpret the will of the gods. Their duties were 
thus similar to those of the augurs, who, however, occu- 
pied a much higher position in the state. 
A little after the civil war between Ctcsar and Pompey, 
the hartispices ordered the temples of the deities to be 
demolished. Jortin, On Eccles. Hist. 
"Am I to be frightened," he said, in answer to some 
report of the haruspicee, "because a sheep is without a 
heart?" Froude, Ctesar, p. 610. 
haruspication(ha-rus-pi-ka'shon), n. [< harus- 
pex (-spic-) + -ation.~] The act or practice of 
prognosticating by the inspection of the en- 
trails of animals slain in sacrifice; divination. 
Baruspication belongs, among the lower races, espe- 
cially to the Malays and Polynesians, and to various Asiatic 
tribes. . . . Captain Burton's account from Central Africa 
perhaps fairly displays its symbolic principle. He de- 
scribes the mganga or sorcerer taking an ordeal by kill- 
ing and splitting a fowl and inspecting its inside; if 
blackness or blemish appears about the wings, it denotes 
the treachery of children and kinsmen ; the backbone 
convict* the mother and grandmother; the tail shows 
that the criminal is the wife, etc. 
E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 111. 
haruspice (ha-rus'pis), n. [< L. haruspex, pi. 
haruspices: see liaruspex.'] Same as harus- 
pex. 
haruspices, n. Plural of haruspex. 
haruspicy (ha-rus'pi-si), . [< L. haruspicium, 
the inspection of victims, < haruspex, harus- 
pex: see haruspex.~] Same as haruspication. 
Also aruspicy. See haruspex. 
harvest (har'vest), . [E. dial, and Sc. contr. 
harrest, harst, hairst, < ME. harvest, harvest, her- 
fest, harvest, autumn, < AS. licerfest, autumn (as 
one of the four seasons lencten, sumor, h&rfest, 
winter, without reference, except by implica- 
tion, to the gathering of crops), = D. herfst, 
OD. also harvest, autumn,=OHG. herbist, MHG. 
herbest, autumn, harvest, G. herbst, autumn, 
dial, harvest, vintage. The Scand. forms are 
contracted (in such a way as to suggest a con- 
formation to OF. Aoust, August, also harvest- 
time, Bret, east = D. oogst, harvest, < L. Augus- 
tus, August): Icel. haust = Sw. Dan. host, au- 
tumn. The fact that harvest in its earliest use 
(AS.) had no direct reference to the gathering 
of crops (see above) is against the current as- 
sociation of the word with L. carpers, pluck, 
Gr. xapirof, fruit.] If. The third season of the 
year; autumn; fall. 
Herueet with the heite * the high sun 
Was comyn into colde. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 12465. 
2. The season of gathering the ripened crops ; 
specifically, the time of reaping and gathering 
grain. 
He that sleepeth in liarntt is a son that canseth shame. 
Prov. x. 6. 
Clar. 0, do not slander him, for he is kind. 
1 Murd. Bight, as snow in harvest. 
Shak., Kich. III., i. 4. 
3. A crop or crops gathered or ready to be 
gathered; specifically, ripe grain reaped, and 
stored in stacks or barns; hence, a supply of 
anything gathered at maturity and stored up : 
as, a harvest of nuts, or of ice. 
To glean the broken ears after the man 
That the main harvest reaps. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. 
Heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 78. 
