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HAR'RYING,/. The aft of teazing, or-of plundering,. 
HARSH, adj. [hervifcke,. Germ. Skinner. ] Auftere ; 
roughly .four-.—Sweet, bitter, four, harjh, and fait, are 
all The epithets we have to denominate that numberlefs 
variety of relilhes. Locke. 
Our nature here is not unlike our wine; 
Some forts, when old, continue briflc and fine: 
So age’s gravity may feem fevere, 
But nothing harjh or bitter ought t’appcar. Denham. 
Rough to the ear: 
Age might, what nature never gives the young, 
Have taught the fijioothnefs of thy native tongue; 
But fatire needs not that, and wit will Ihine 
Through the harjh cadence of a rugged line. Dryden. 
Crabbed; morofe ; peevifli.—Bear patiently the harjli 
words of thy enemies, as knowing that the anger of an 
enemy admonifties us of our duty. Taylor. 
No harjh reflection let remembrance raife ; 
Forbear to mention what thou can’ll not praife. Prior. 
Rugged to the touch ; rough.—Black feels as if you 
were feeling needles points, or fome harjh fand ; and 
red feels very fmooth. Boyle. —Unpleafing ; rigorous : 
With eloquence innate his tongue was arm’d ; 
Though harjh the precept, yet the preacher charm’d 
Dryden. 
HAR'SHA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HARSH'LY, adv. Sourly; aulterely to the palate, 
as unripe fruit. With violence ; in oppofition to gentle- 
nefs, unlefs in the following paffage it rather fignifies 
unripely: ' 
’Till like ripe fruit, thou drop 
Into thy mother’s lap ; or be with eafe 
Gather’d, not ha.rjhly pluck’d. Milton. 
Severely; morofely ; crabbedly.—I would rather he 
was a man of a rough temper, that would treat me harjhly , 
than of an effeminate nature. Addijon .—Unpleafantly to 
the ear: 
The rings of iron that on the doors were hung, 
Sent out a jarring found, and harjhly rung.. Dryden. 
HARSH'NESS, f. Sournefs ; auftere tafte.—The un¬ 
equal diftribution of the fpirits maketh harjhnefs. Bacon. 
—Roughnels to the ear.—Neither can the natural harfi¬ 
nefs of the French, or the perpetual ill accent, be ever 
refined into perfeCt harmony like the Italian. Dryden. 
’Tis not enough no harjhnefs gives offence; 
The found mull feem an echo to the fenfe. Pope. 
Ruggednefs to the touch.— Harfinefs and ruggednefs, of 
bodies is unpleafant to the touch. Bacon. —Crabbednefs; 
morofenefs; peevilhnefs; 
Thy tender-hefted nature lhall not give 
Thee o’er to harfinefs: her eyes are fierce, but thine 
Do comfort, and not burn. Shakejpeare. 
HARS'KIRCH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and county of Naffau Saarbruck .- 
thirty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Deux Ponts, and forty- 
eight weft-fouth-weft of Landau. 
HAR'SLA, a town of Sweden^ in the province of 
Weft Gothland : five miles weft of Uddevalla. 
HAR'SO, a fmall ifland in the Baltic, near the coaft 
of Sweden. Lat. 58.44. N. Ion. 17. 16. E. Greenwich. 
HART, f. [j>eojve, Sax.] A he-deer; the male of 
the roe. See the article Cervus, vol. iv. p. 54. 
That inftant was I turn’d into a hart, 
And any defires, like fell and cruel hounds, 
E’er fince purfue me Shakejpeare. 
JIART'-EVIL, f. In farriery, a defluxion of hu- 
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mours on the jaws of a horfe which hinders him from 
eating. Scott. 
HART'-HUNTING,/ The aft of hunting the hart. 
HART'-ROOT, f. in botany. See Athamanta. 
HART ROY'AL, a hart which has been hunted by 
the king or queen. 
Hart Royal Proclaimed, a hart, that, having 
been hunted by the king or queen, has fled fo far from 
the foreft or chafe, that it is unlikely he will ever re¬ 
turn of his own accord to the place aforefaid • and 
whereupon proclamation is made in all towns or villages 
thereabouts, that none lhall kill or offend him, but that 
he may fafely return if he lift. 
HART's'-TONGUE, f. in botany. See Asplekium 
HART'.WORT. See Tordylium. 
HAR'TENSDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle. 
of Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgebiirg : four miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Zwickau. 
HAR'TENSTAIN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : twelve miles wcjft of Crems. 
HAR'TENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Upper Saxony, and lordfliip of Schonburg : fix 
miles fouth-eaft of Zwickau, and eighteen eaft of Greitz. 
HART'FORD. See Hertford. 
HART'FORD, a townlhip of the American States, 
in Windfor county, Vermont, on Connecticut river, op- 
pofite Lebanon, in New Hamplhire, containing 988 in¬ 
habitants. 
HART'FORD, a townlhip of the American States, 
on the eaft bank of Geneffee fiver, in New York State* 
forty miles weft of Geneva, and fixty-feven fouth-eaft! 
by-eaft of Fort Niagara. 
HART'FORD, a fertile and populous county of the 
American States, in Connecticut, bounded nortli by the 
State of Maffachufetts ; foutli by part of Middlefex and 
Newhaven counties; eaft by Tolland ; and weft by Litch¬ 
field county. It is about thirty-four miles from north 
to foutli, and its greateft breadth from eaft to weft is 
thirty miles. It is divided into fifteen townftiips, and 
contains 28,029 inhabitants. Chief place, Hartford city. 
HART'FORD, a city of the American States, and 
capital of Connecticut, lies on the'weft bank of Connec¬ 
ticut river, in the county and townlhip of its own name 
fifty miles north-wefterly from the mouth of the river* 
at Saybrook Bar, in Long Ifland Sound ; and thus far the 
tide flows. The townlhip is fix miles fquare, bounded 
north by Windfor, north-eaft by Eaft Windfor, weft by 
Farmington, eaft by Eaft Hartford, fouth-eaft by Glaf- 
tonbury, and fouth by Wethersfield. The town is di¬ 
vided by a fmall ftream called Little River, with high 
romantic banks, over which is a bridge connecting the 
two divifions of the town. The city is regularly laid°out 
the ftreets interfering each other at right angles. Its 
buildings are an elegant ftate-houfe, two churches for 
congregationalifts, one for epifcopalians, and between 
400 and 500 dwelling-houfes; a number of which are 
handfomely built with brick. The inhabitants amount 
to upwards of 4000. A bank was incorporated in 1792, 
with 100,000 dollars capital, number of lhares25o. The 
corporation have the power to extend their capital to 
500,000 dollars. A woollen manufactory was eftabliftied 
here, and encouraged by the ftate, but has not fucceeded. 
The town is advantageoufly fituated for trade, lias a fine 
back-country, enters largely into the manufacturing bufi- 
nefs, and is a rich, flourilhing, commercial, town. It 
was firft fettled in 1636, by Mr. Haynes and Mr. Hooker 
who, with their adherents, removed from Maffachufetts! 
The Dutch had then a trading-houfe at the confluence 
of Mill and Connecticut rivers. They foon relinquifhed 
the fettlement,and their lands were confifcated by a com- 
miflionfrom the Commonwealth of England in 1653. A 
point of land, which formed part of their pofleflions, is 
Hill called Dutch Point. It is forty miles north-eaft-by- 
north of Newhaven, fifty-five north-weft of New London, 
124 fouth-weft of Bolton, 128 north-eaft of New York, 
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