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Found 1 definition: harp.

Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun harp has 3 senses

1. harp(n = noun.artifact) - a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers;
is a kind of chordophone
has particulars: aeolian harp, aeolian lyre, wind harp, lyre
Derived forms verb harp₂, noun harpist₁

2. harp(n = noun.artifact) - a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade;
is a kind of support

3. harp(n = noun.artifact) harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ - a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole;
is a kind of free-reed instrument
Derived forms verb harp₂, noun harpist₁

Verb harp has 2 senses

1. harp(v = verb.communication) dwell - come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"
is one way to ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

2. harp(v = verb.creation) - play the harp; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"
is one way to play
Derived forms noun harp₃, noun harp₁, noun harper₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

harp, n. [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G. harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.].

1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers. [1913 Webster]

2. A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre. [1913 Webster]

3. A grain sieve. [1913 Webster]

Æolian harp. See under Æolian.
Harp seal (Zoöl.), an arctic seal (Phoca Grœnlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur. -- Harp shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

harp, v. i. [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.].

1. To play on the harp. [1913 Webster]
"I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps." [1913 Webster]

2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon. W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
"Harping on what I am,
Not what he knew I was." [1913 Webster]

To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Colloq.]

harp, v. t.

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon. [1913 Webster]
"Thou 'st harped my fear aright." [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

harp, n. & v.
--n. a large upright roughly triangular musical instrument consisting of a frame housing a graduated series of vertical strings, played by plucking with the fingers.
--v.intr.
1 (foll. by on, on about) talk repeatedly and tediously about.
2 play on a harp.

Idiom:
harp-seal a Greenland seal, Phoca groenlandica, with a harp-shaped dark mark on its back.

Derivative:
harper n. harpist n.

Etymology:
OE hearpe f. Gmc

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Musical Instruments

N musical instruments, band, string-band, brass-band, orchestra, orchestrina, monochord, polychord, harp, lyre, lute, archlute, mandola, mandolin, mandoline, guitar, zither, cither, cithern, gittern, rebeck, bandurria, bandura, banjo, bina, vina, xanorphica, viol, violin, fiddle, kit, viola, viola d'amore, viola di gamba, tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass, bass viol, base viol, theorbo, double base, contrabasso, violone, psaltery, bow, fiddlestick, piano, pianoforte, harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord, manichord, clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, pianino, Eolian harp, organ, harmonium, harmoniphon, American organ, barrel organ, hand organ, accordion, seraphina, concertina, humming top, flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet, clarinet, claronet, basset horn, corno di bassetto, oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais, corno Inglese, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto, serpent, bass clarinet, bagpipes, union pipes, musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes, reed instrument, sirene, pipe, pitch-pipe, sourdet, whistle, catcall, doodlesack, harmoniphone, horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide, French horn, saxophone, sax, buglehorn, saxhorn, flugelhorn, althorn, helicanhorn, posthorn, sackbut, euphonium, bombardon tuba, cymbal, bell, gong, tambour, tambourine, tamborine, drum, tom-tom, tabor, tabret, tabourine, taborin, side drum, kettle drum, timpani, tympani, tymbal, timbrel, castanet, bones, musical glasses, musical stones, harmonica, sounding-board, rattle, tam-tam, zambomba, reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon, xylophone, sordine, sordet, sourdine, sourdet, mute, (iv) PERCEPTION OF SOUND.