Word Meanings - HARPIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.

PLAYER
1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
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.
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.
DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays.
STAGEPLAYER
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
SWORDPLAYER
A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.