King James Bible Dictionary

H'ARM, noun

1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment.

Do thyself no harm Acts 16:28.

He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing. Leviticus 5:16.

2. Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.

H'ARM, verb transitive To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable.

(hill of Megiddo), (Revelation 16:16) in the Revised Version for Armageddon. The change is chiefly Har , hill, in place of Ar , city.

HARMAT'TAN, noun A dry easterly wind in Africa, which destroys vegetation.

H'ARMED, participle passive Injured; hurt; damaged.

H'ARMEL, noun The wild African rue.

H'ARMFUL, adjective Hurtful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mischievous.

The earth brought forth fruit and food for man, without any mixture of harmful quality.

H'ARMFULLY, adverb Hurtfully; injuriously; with damage.

H'ARMFULNESS, noun Hurtfulness; noxiousness.

H'ARMING, participle present tense Hurting; injuring.

H'ARMLESS, adjective Not hurtful or injurious; innoxious. Ceremonies are harmless in themselves.

1. Unhurt; undamaged; uninjured; as, to give bond to save another harmless

2. Innocent; not guilty.

Who is holy, harmless undefiled, separate from sinners. Hebrews 7:26.

H'ARMLESSLY, adverb Innocently; without fault or crime; as, to pass the time harmlessly in recreations.

1. Without hurt or damage.

Bullets fall harmlessly into wood or feathers.

H'ARMLESSNESS, noun The quality of being innoxious; freedom from a tendency to injure.

1. Innocence.

HARMON'IC

HARMON'ICA, noun A collection of musical glasses of a particular form, so arranged as to produce exquisite music.

HARMON'ICAL, adjective [See Harmony.] Relating to harmony or music; as harmonical use.

1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as harmonic sounds.

Harmonic twang of leather, horn and brass.

The basis of an harmonic system.

The harmonic elements are the three smallest concords.

2. An epithet applied to the accessary sounds which accompany the predominant and apparently simple tone of any chord or string.

Harmonical mean, in arithmetic and algebra, a term used to express certain relations of numbers and quantities, which are supposed to bear an analogy to musical consonances.

Harmonical proportion, in arithmetic and algebra, is said to obtain between three quantities, or four quantities, in certain cases.

Harmonical series, a series of many numbers in continued harmonical proportion.

HARMON'ICS,noun Harmonious sounds; consonances.

1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

2. Derivative sounds, generated with predominant sounds, and produced by subordinate vibrations of a chord or string, when its whole length vibrates. These shorter vibrations produce more acute sounds, and are called acute harmonics

3. Grave harmonics are low sounds which accompany every perfect consonance of two sounds.

HARMO'NIOUS, adjective Adapted to each other; having the parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.

God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us.

1. Concordant; consonant; symphonious; musical. harmonious sounds are such as accord, and are agreeable to the ear.

2. Agreeing; living in peace and friendship; as a harmonious family or society.

HARMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With just adaptation and proportion of parts to each other.

Distances, motions, and quantities of matter harmoniously adjusted in this great variety of our system.

1. With accordance of sound; musically; in concord.

2. In agreement; in peace and friendship.

HARMO'NIOUSNESS, noun Proportion and adaption of parts; musicalness.

1. Agreement; concord.

H'ARMONIST, noun A musician; a composer of music.

1. One who brings together corresponding passages, to show their agreement.

H'ARMONIZE, verb intransitive To be in concord; to agree in sounds.

1. To agree; to be in peace and friendship; as individuals or families.

2. To agree in sense or purport; as, the arguments harmonize; the facts stated by different witnesses harmonize

H'ARMONIZE, verb transitive To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree.

1. To make musical; to combine according to the laws of counterpoint.

H'ARMONIZED, participle passive Made to be accordant.

H'ARMONIZER, noun One that brings together or reconciles.

1. In music, a practical harmonist.

H'ARMONIZING, participle present tense Causing to agree.

HARMONOM'ETER, noun An instrument or monochord for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds.

H'ARMONY, noun [Latin harmonia; Gr. a setting together, a closure or seam, agreement, concert, to fit or adapt, to square.]

1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or composition of things, intended to form a connected whole; as the harmony of the universe.

Equality and correspondence are the causes of harmony

All discord, harmony not understood.

2. Just proportion of sound; consonance; musical concord; the accordance of two or more intervals or sounds, or that union of different sounds which pleases the ear; or a succession of such sounds, called chords.

Ten thousand harps that tuned Angelic harmonies.

3. Concord; agreement; accordance in facts; as the harmony of the gospels.

4. Concord or agreement in views, sentiments or manners, interests, etc., good correspondence; peace and friendship.

The citizens live in harmony

5. Natural harmony in music, consists of the harmonic triad or common chord. Artificial harmony is a mixture of concords and discords. Figured harmony is when one or more of the parts move, during the continuance of a chord, through certain notes which do not form any of the constituent parts of that chord.

6. Perfect harmony implies the use of untempered concords only. Tempered harmony is when the notes are varied by temperament. [See Temperament.]

H'ARMOST, noun [Gr. to regulate.] In ancient Greece, a Spartan governor, regulator or perfect.

H'ARMOTOME, noun [Gr. a joint, and to cut.] In mineralogy, cross-stone, or staurolite, called also pyramidical zeolite. [See Cross-stone.