Word Meanings - HARPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARPING)

• Iteration
• Repetition
• reiteration
• harping
• recurrence
• succession

Related words: (words related to HARPING)

• HARPAGON
  A grappling iron.
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• HARPING
  Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton.
• SUCCESSIONIST
  A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• REPETITION
  The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
• HARPOONEER
  An harpooner. Grabb.
• RECURRENCE; RECURRENCY
  The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.
• HARPIST
  A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• HARPY
  A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of
• HARPOONER
  One who throws the harpoon.
• HARPA
  A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
• HARPSICHON
  A harpsichord.
• ITERATION
  Recital or performance a second time; repetition. Bacon. What needs this iteration, woman Shak.
• HARPSICHORD
  A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.
• HARPINGS
  The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem. Totten.
• HARPER
  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.
• SUCCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv.
• CAT-HARPING
  One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• CHARPIE
  Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
• JEW'S-HARP
  The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor. (more info) which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• LITERATION
  The act or process of representing by letters.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• SHARPEN
  To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
• SHARP
  scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies
• TRANSLITERATION
  The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.