Reverse Dictionary: HARE – HARZ

HARE – see RABBIT
 
HARE AND HOUNDS – person
– HARE the person who lays the ‘scent’ usually paper torn into fragments) which the ‘hounds’ follow in the sport of hare and hounds (a cross-country race in which the runners follow a trail marked by torn-up paper) …1883
– HARRIER a member of a ‘hare-and-hounds’ team …1891
 
HAREBRAINED – adjectives
– BEE-HEADED harebrained, flighty, excitable; light-headed, unsettled …1879
– BEE-HEADIT harebrained; flighty; eccentric; excitable …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAT-WITTED small-minded, obstinate, and spiteful; silly and conceited; harebrained, whimsical …1673
– COCK-BRAINED having little judgement; foolish and light-headed; silly, giddy, rash, harebrained, thoughtless, flighty …1530
– FEATHER-HEADED empty-headed, harebrained, silly, brainless …1647
– GARE-BRAINED † heedless, harebrained …1691 Eng. dial.  
– HALLIRACKIT giddy, hare-brained …Bk1905 Sc.
– KAE-WITTED harebrained, half-witted …1793 Sc.
– KAY-WITTED half-witted, harebrained, scatterbrained …1853 Sc.
– RAMSTOUGAR irresponsible, harebrained, heedless …1825 Sc.
– RAMSTOUGEROUS † heedless, harebrained …Bk1905 Sc.
– RAMSTUGIOUS † heedless, harebrained …Bk1905 Sc.
– RASE-BRAINED impetuous, harebrained, wild, violent …1887 Eng, dial.
– RATTLE-BRAINED talkative; flighty; harebrained; silly; stupid; prone to confusion; foolish; unable to concentrate …1868 Sc.
– RATTLE-HEADED empty-headed, stupid; foolish and noisy; talkative, chattering, giddy, flighty, hare-brained …1647
​- RATTLE-NODDLED † characterized by foolish noisy levity of character or conduct; giddy, harebrained, flighty, noisy, wild; rattle-headed …1661
– RATTLE-SCULLED talkative, flighty, harebrained …1883 Sc.
– SCATTER-WITTED senseless, harebrained …1867 Sc.
– SKIP-BRAIN flighty, harebrained …1603
– SKIVIE harebrained; mentally deranged …1808 Sc.
– WHIZZLE-BRAINED giddy, thoughtless, harebrained …B1900 Eng. dial.
– WIZZLE-PATED giddy, harebrained, thoughtless …B1900 Eng. dial.
harebrained – person
– HAIRUM, SCAIRUM, HARUM-SCARUM a reckless, unregulated person; giddy, harebrained, or rash person; a flighty person …1784 
– HALLIRAKUS a giddy, hare-brained person …1803 Sc.
– HAREBRAIN a silly or flighty person; a harebrained person …1550
– RATTLE a giddy, harebrained person; one who talks volubly; a chatterer; a stupid fellow …B1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCAPEGRACE a man or boy of reckless and disorderly habits; a careless, idle, harebrained fellow; a graceless, good-for-nothing fellow; a ne’er-do-well; a complete rogue or rascal (rarely applied to a female) …1809
– SKITTER-WIT a flighty person; a foolish, harebrained fellow; a scatterbrain …1886 Eng. dial.
– WINDY a mad, harebrained person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YONNACK a fool, a harebrained fellow …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
 
HARELIP – adjectives
– HARE-SCALED having a cleft or hare-lip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARE-SHAWN having a cleft or hare-lip …1886 Eng. dial.
– HARE-SHORN having a cleft or hare-lip …1886 Eng. dial.
– HARE-SHOTTEN having a cleft or hare-lip …1883 Eng. dial.
– HAY-SCALED hare-lipped …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KIDNEY-LIPPED † hare-lipped …1648
harelip – nouns 
– HAIR-SHARD a cleft lip; a harelip …1846 Sc. dial.
– HAIR-SHAW a cleft lip; a harelip …1846 Sc. dial.
– HAIR-SHORN-LIP a cleft lip; a harelip …Bk1905 Eng. dial. ​
– HARE-SCART a hare-lip …1892 N. Ireland
– HARE-SHA a hare-lip …1896 Eng. dial.
– HARE-SHARD a hare-lip …Bk1905 Sc.
– HARE-SHAW † a harelip …1597 obs. exc. Sc.
– HARE-SHED a hare-lip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARE-SHIE a hare-lip …1876 Sc.
– HARE-SHORE a hare-lip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARE-SKART a hare-lip …Bk1905 Sc.
 
HARLOT – adjectives (also see PROSTITUTE)
– MERETRICIAL † befitting a harlot; having the character of a harlot …1751
– QUEANISH † of the nature of a harlot or strumpet …1596
harlot – nouns
– NUGGING-DRESS an odd or exotic dress, esp. a loose dress affected by, and characteristic of, harlots …L17 cant
harlot – person 
– ACADEMICIAN a prostitute; a harlot; an inmate of an ‘academy’ …c1760 UK sl.
– AMOROSA a wanton woman; a harlot  …E17
– BUTTERED BUN(S) † a harlot, a mistress …1679 sl.
– CANVASBACK a harlot; a sexually loose woman; a woman who spends considerable time with her back on a canvas-covered floor, presumably copulating …20C sl.
– CRACKED PITCHER a harlot still faintly respectable …M18 colloq.
– CROSHABELL † a courtesan, a harlot, a prostitute …a1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CYPRIAN a licentious or profligate person; later, a lewd woman, a harlot, a prostitute, a courtesan …1598
– DANT † a sexually loose woman; a profligate woman; a promiscuous woman; a harlot, a prostitute …a1529
– DASHER a flashy prostitute; a showy harlot …M18 sl.
– FANCY WOMAN a kept woman; a harlot; a prostitute …1907 Amer. dial.
– FILTH a harlot …L16 sl.
– FLESH-POT a harlot; a sexually loose woman …sl.
– FLY-BY-NIGHT a harlot …c1860
– FOOL-TRAP a harlot …19C Brit. sl.
– FRICATRICE a lewd woman; a harlot …1605
– GAL † a harlot; a prostitute …1851 colloq.
– GAMESTER † one addicted to amorous sport; a lewd person, whether male or female; a harlot, a prostitute; a promiscuous woman …1602 UK
– GAME WOMAN a harlot; a prostitute …c1830 sl.
– GARDEN GODDESS a Covent Garden prostitute; a harlot, not necessarily superior …19C UK sl.
– GARDEN WHORE a Covent Garden prostitute; a very common prostitute; a low harlot …19C UK sl.
– GARRISON HACK a harlot; a military prostitute; a soldier’s drab …1867 sl.
– GAY-BIT a prostitute, a harlot …1830 Brit. & US sl.
– GIRLS, THE harlots or prostitutes in the mass …1821 colloq.
– HARLOTRY † a prostitute; a harlot; a term of opprobrium for a woman …1584 now rare or obs.
– HETAERA, HETAIRA a female companion or paramour, a mistress, a concubine; a courtesan, a harlot …1820
– HIREN † a seductive woman; a harlot; a prostitute, a strumpet, a courtesan …1600
– HOOK a harlot; a prostitute, a hooker …1918 Amer. sl.
– IMPURE an unchaste or lewd person; a harlot, a prostitute …1784 
– INCOGNITA † a high-class harlot …Bk1896 sl.
– KATE a harlot; a prostitute; a nickname for a loose woman …16C sl.
– LACED MUTTON † a strumpet; a harlot; a prostitute; a courtesan; an unchaste or loose woman …1578 sl. 
– LAND-FRIGATE † a harlot, a strumpet …1611
– LIGHT HORSE a courtesan, a harlot …c1620 sl.
– LIONESS a harlot; a prostitute …L16 sl.
– LOOSE-BODIED GOWN a prostitute; a harlot …E17 sl.
– LOTTIES AND TOTTIES harlots …B1885, chiefly theatrical
– MAB † a harlot, a prostitute, a woman of loose character; a slattern  …1557-8 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MORSEL a prostitute; a sexually attractive woman; a harlot or a tart …E16
– NEEDLE-WOMAN a harlot …1849 sl.
– NIGHT-PIECE a harlot …B1900 sl.
– ONE OF MY COUSINS a harlot …L17 colloq.
– PAINTED-CAT a prostitute; a frontier harlot …20C US colloq.
– PARNEL † a priest’s concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman; an immodest girl; an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute …1362 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PARTRIDGE a whore, a prostitute; a harlot or a tart …c1700 sl. 
– PROSTIBULE †* a harlot, a prostitute …1623
– PUG † a courtesan; a prostitute; a harlot; a mistress …E17
– QUAEDAM †* in a disparaging sense: a woman, a female; a loose woman, a harlot …a1670
– QUEAN a woman; a female; from early Middle English a term of disparagement or abuse; hence, a bold, impudent, or ill-behaved woman; a jade, a hussy; a harlot, a strumpet, esp. in 16th-17th centuries …a1000 
– RABBIT PIE a prostitute; a harlot …19C sl.
– RAGS a cheap prostitute; a low-class harlot; any low and disreputable person …1935 US sl.
– RAG-TIME GIRL a sweetheart; a girl with whom one has a joyous time; a harlot …1908 sl.
– REP a woman of reputation; hence, a harlot; a woman of a certain reputation …1721 sl.
– RIBALD a harlot …Bk1903 sl.
– RIBAUD a harlot …Bk1903 sl.
– ROAD a harlot …Bk1903 sl.
– SCOLOPENDRA † a term of reproach to a woman; a nickname for a courtesan; a harlot …1633
– SQUIRREL a harlot …L18 sl.
– STRUM a strumpet; a prostitute; a harlot …L17 sl.
– STRUMPET a harlot; a prostitute …1602 sl.
– SUCCUBA a mistress; a harlot …1610
– TWIGGER a vigorous, prolific breeder: originally said of a ewe; hence, an unchaste or lascivious person; a wanton person of either sex; a strumpet, a harlot, a fornicator, a wencher …1594
– WAGTAIL † a term of contempt for a profligate or inconstant woman; hence, a wanton woman, a prostitute, a harlot, a courtesan …1592
– WOMAN OF LOOSE MORALS a sexually loose woman; a harlot …20C US sl.
harlot – person, other
– CUNT-PENSIONER a kept man; a pimp; a man living on a woman’s harlotry or concubinage …19C colloq.
– FAKER a harlot’s fancy man …1891 obs. sl.
– LOUIS a harlot’s bully …1935 sl., orig US
– MAC one who associates with harlots; a pander, a pimp …1887 sl. 
harlot – verbs
– FLUTTER A SKIRT to be a (street-walking) harlot …M19 sl.
– FLY THE FLAG of harlots: to walk the streets …c1840 sl.
– HARLOT to behave like a harlot; to prostitute oneself …1641
– HARLOTIZE † to make a harlot of; to call harlot …1589
– WHORE to utilize prostitutes; to consort with harlots 
 
HARLOTRY – nouns
– BUTTOCK-BANQUETING harlotry …L16 sl.
– SACKING LAW harlotry as practiced by the underworld with a view to further gain …L16 cant
– SUBURB-TRADE harlotry …Bk1904 sl.
 
HARM – nouns
– BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death …a1000
– DANGER † mischief, harm, damage …c1400
– DARE harm, pain …1691 Eng. dial.
– DERE harm; injury; trouble …arch.
– EVIL HEAL † disaster, harm …c1175 obs.
– GRAME † grief, sorrow; harm …c1000 obs. exc. arch.
– ILL evil, misfortune, injury; harm; misunderstanding …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LACK loss, harm, damage …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MARRING † injury, harm, impairment …1357
– OFFENCE † hurt, harm, injury, damage …c1374
– PAIRMENT † impairment, loss, harm, damage …c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PAYMENT damage, harm, injury …1856 Eng. dial.  
– QUED † evil, mischief, harm …a1225
– QUEDE † evil, mischief, harm …a1225
– SCADE hurt, damage, harm, mischief …1899 Sc.
– SCATLOE † loss, harm, prejudice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SKADE hurt, damage, harm, mischief …1899 Sc.
– SKATLOE † loss, harm, prejudice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TARRIE † vexation, trouble, harm …1826 Sc.
– TARY † vexation, trouble, harm …1826 Sc.
– TINSEL † the losing of something, or the sustaining of harm, damage, or detriment; loss …a1300
– TORFER† hardship, trouble, distress; harm, mischief, injury …a1300
– VENTURE † danger, jeopardy, hazard, or peril; the chance or risk of incurring harm or loss …1550
harm – person
– HARM-DOER one who does or causes harm …1477
– HARMER one who harms; an injurer …1583
– MOTHER OF ALL MISCHIEF, THE an originator of great harm …1883 Eng. dial.
harm – verbs
– CATCH COPPER † to suffer harm, to come to grief …1530 colloq.
– CROCK UP to damage or harm someone or something …Bk2006 US sl.
– DERE to injure or harm …arch.
– DO ONE DIRT to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1897 Amer. dial.
– DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1906 Amer. dial.
– DO SOMEONE MISCHIEF to cause trouble or harm to …c1385
– DROP SOMEONE IN IT to cause trouble or harm to …1991 sl.
– FUCK ABOUT to cause trouble or harm to …1960 sl.
– FUCK AROUND to cause trouble or harm to …1960 sl.
– GIVE ONE THE WHOLE WORKS to harm, to beat up, to kill …c1930 sl., orig. US
– GIVE ONE THE WORKS to harm, to beat up, to kill …c1930 sl., orig. US
– GIVE SOMEONE A HURTING to cause deliberate harm to someone …1970s sl., orig. US Black
– GIVE THE RUN-AROUND to cause trouble or harm to …1924 sl., orig. US
– GUN FOR to be on the lookout for with the intent of hurting or killing; to seek out or pursue with harmful intent; to aim to punish …1878 US sl.
– HASSLE to cause trouble or harm to; to bother, to pester, to harass a person …1959
– HAVE SOMEONE’S GUTS to inflict severe punishment or harm on someone; usually used as a threat …colloq.
– HAVE SOMEONE’S GUTS FOR GARTERS to inflict severe punishment or harm on someone; usually used as a threat …colloq.
– ICE to harm, to cause trouble for …1970s sl.
– ILL to harm; to reproach; to rail at; to speak evil of …1684 Eng. dial.
– IMPEACH † to hinder the action, progress, or well-being of; to affect detrimentally or prejudicially; to hurt, to harm, to injure, to endamage, to impair …1563
– JEST WITH EDGE TOOLS to amuse oneself with something that may cause one serious harm; to sport with what is dangerous …1579
– MALAPEN to hurt, to harm …1861 Sc.
– MALEFICIATE † to bewitch; to affect with enchantments; to render impotent by spells; to do evil to; to hurt; to harm …1621
– MAR to harm, to injure a person; later, to mangle, to disfigure …c1205 arch.
– OFFEND † to strike so as to hurt; to wound, to hurt; to give physical pain to; to harm, to injure …c1385
– OFFSET to deceive or harm someone; to betray …1938 Amer. dial.
– PLAY HELL WITH to cause trouble or harm to …1803 sl.
– PLAY MERRY HELL WITH to cause trouble or harm to …1803 sl.
– PLAY WITH EDGED TOOLS to amuse oneself with something that may cause one serious harm; to sport with what is dangerous …1767
– PLAY WITH EDGE-TOOLS to amuse oneself with something that may cause one serious harm; to sport with what is dangerous …1594
– PUT A BEATING ON to cause deliberate harm to someone …1970s sl., orig. US Black
– PUT A HURTING ON to cause deliberate harm to someone …1970s sl., orig. US Black
– PUT A HURT ON to cause deliberate harm to someone …1970s sl., orig. US Black
– PUT THE BOOT IN to cause further upset or harm to someone already in distress …Bk1999 
– RACK UP to damage; to wreck; to harm …1950s US sl.
– SCAM to injure, to crack; to spoil, to damage, to harm in some way, esp. of clothing …1866 Sc.
– SHAFT to thrust (in one’s imagination) a pole up someone’s anus; essentially, to stop a person short; to punish or treat very badly, to harm …1959 sl., orig. & chiefly Amer.
– SHOND †* to harm, to injure …1338
– SHOOT ONESELF IN THE FOOT to make one’s own situation worse; to cause oneself difficulty or harm inadvertently …1959
– SPIKE to harm, to undermine …L19 sl.
– VICE to do harm, to cheat, to steal, to cause physical pain …1950s US Black sl.
 
HARMED – adjectives
– BASTED beaten; harmed …Bk2006 US sl.
– DEBOIST † damaged, harmed …1641
harmed – verbs 
– HAVE BEEN IN THE WARS to have been harmed …1850 sl.
 
HARMFUL, HARMING – adjectives
– DAMNABLE †* causing loss or harm; hurtful, pernicious …c1420
– ENNOYOUS †* annoying, vexatious, troublesome; harmful …c1420
– HARMLY hurtful, harmful; annoying …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– ILLFUL †* full of evil; harmful; pernicious …1615
– ILLING †* evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill …c1220
– MALEFICENT of things and spiritual agencies: working harm, hurtful, malefic …1678
– MALEFICIAL † maleficent; harmful …1601
– MALIFEROUS bringing or producing evil or harm; hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious …1727
– NOCIVE † harmful, hurtful, injurious …1538
– NOCIVOUS †* hurtful, harmful, injurious, evil …1616
– NOISANT †* harmful, troublesome, grievous …a1440
– NOYOUS † causing annoyance; annoying, disagreeable, vexatious, troublesome, harmful, hurtful …a1340
– NUISIBLE †* harmful, hurtful …1490
– OFFENSIBLE † of the nature of an offence, fault, or crime; hurtful, harmful, injurious; offensive …1574
– OFFENSIVE † hurtful, harmful, injurious …a1548
– SAIR destructive, harmful, injurious …1901 Sc.
– TOXIC of a situation: unhealthy, poisonous …1998 UK sl.
harmful, harming – nouns  (includes HARMFULNESS)
– MALEFICENCE harmfulness …1796
– NAIL IN ONE’S COFFIN anything seen as potentially harmful, however pleasurable in the short term …M19 sl.
– OBNOXIETY * the state of being subject or open to anything harmful, or undesirable …1656
 
HARMLESS – adjectives
– ADRIFT harmless …17C sl.
– BALELESS † harmless, innocent …a1000
– ILLAESIVE †* harmless …1627-47
– ILL-LESS having no evil designs; harmless, innocent …a1670 Sc.
– MEEK AS A MOUSE extremely gentle and harmless …Bk1995 US sl.
– PARTICULAR quiet, harmless …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SACKLESS simple, inoffensive, harmless; trembling; bashful …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SAKELESS of persons, animals, or things: inoffensive, harmless, guileless …1768 Sc.
– UNBALEFUL † harmless, gentle …c1200
– UNSKATHEFUL † harmless …c1200
harmless – person
– CALF a fool, a simpleton; an awkward or silly boy or man; a meek, harmless person …1553 sl.
– DORK a stupid or ridiculous person; a jerk, a nerd; a socially inept, unfashionable, harmless person …1960 sl.
– GOODY an insipid, harmless person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GOODY-GOODY an insipid, harmless person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PUSS a weak, harmless male; a timid person …sl.
– PUSSY a weak, harmless male; a timid person …sl.
– PUSSYCAT a weak, harmless male; a timid person …sl.
harmless – verbs 
– TAKE OUT to destroy, to eliminate, to render harmless …Bk2002 Aust. sl.
 
HARMLESSNESS – nouns
– UNLOTHNESS † harmlessness, innocence …a1225
 
HARMONIC – adjectives
– PANHARMONIC universally harmonic, harmonizing with all …1886
 
HARMONICA – nouns
– BREATH HARP a harmonica …1946 Amer. dial.
– CORN-ON-THE-COB a harmonica …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FRENCH HARP a harmonica …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HARMONIA a harmonica …1973 Amer. dial.
– HARMONIC a harmonica …1966 Amer. dial.
– HARMONICUM a harmonica …1916 Amer. dial.
– HARMONISTER a harmonica …1966 Amer. dial.
– HARP a harmonica …1887 Amer. dial.
– JEW’S HARP a harmonica …1941 Amer. dial.
– MOUTH HARP a harmonica …1903 Amer. dial.
– MOUTH STEINWAY a harmonica …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TEETH ORGAN a harmonica …1966 Amer. dial.
harmonica – person
– HARPIST a harmonica player …1993 UK sl.
 
HARMONIOUS – adjectives
– ACCORDABLE † agreeing, harmonious, accordant; suitable, agreeable …c1374
– ARMONICAL † harmonious …1531
– CONCORDIOUS †* harmonious …a1670
– HARMONIACAL † full of harmony, harmonious …1536
– HARMONIAL * pert. to harmony or agreement; harmonious …1569
– HARMONICAL * marked by harmony or agreement; harmonious, concordant …1531
– SUGARED † of sound, melody, harmony: melodious, harmonious …c1430
harmonious – nouns 
– RAPPROCHEMENT a coming or bringing together; an establishment of harmonious relations …1809
harmonious – verbs 
– HARMONATE to get along well with others; to be harmonious …1968 Amer. dial.
– QUADER to agree, to be harmonious, to get along …1847 Sc.
 
HARMONIOUSLY – adverbs
– HARMONICALLY † 1. with harmony or concord of sounds; concordantly, tunefully, harmoniously …1589
† 2. in the way of harmony or agreement; agreeingly, harmoniously …1604
 
HARMONIOUSNESS – nouns
– HARMONICALNESS † tunefulness, harmoniousness …1691-8
 
HARMONIZE – verbs
– GET TOGETHER to put in order; to organize; to harmonize …sl.
 
HARMONY – adjectives
– HARMONIAC † relating to harmony, or to the cultivation of music …1771 nonce word
harmony – nouns 
– HARMOGE † a harmony of colours or sounds …1601
– PACKNESS friendship, harmony, familiarity, intimacy …1825 Sc.
– PANHARMONY † universal or general harmony …1651
harmony – person 
– HARMONIAN †* one versed in harmony or music; a musician …1603
– HARMONICIAN † one versed in harmony or musical theory …1760
harmony – verbs
– GET ALONG LIKE A WAGON AND WHEELS to live in sympathy and harmony …1899 Eng. dial.
 
HARNESS – nouns
– TACKLING † a horse’s harness …c1645
 
HARP – nouns
– HARPING-GLEE † harp music …a1300
harp – person 
– HARPER one who harps or plays upon a harp …a800
– HARPERESS a female player on the harp …Bk1905
– HARPIST a (professional player) on the harp …1613
– HARP-MASTER a teacher of harp playing …1819
– HARP-MISTRESS a female teacher of harp playing …1852
– HARPRESS * a female harp player …1814
– HARPSTER † a female performer on the harp …Bk1905
harp – verbs 
– THRUMBLE †* to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar or harp, by plucking the strings; to strum …1685
– TIRL † to pluck at; to pluck at the strings of a harp or the like so as to cause them to sound …c1470
 
HARP ON – verbs
– DING to reiterate, to repeat, to importune; to harp on one subject …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAME to dwell on a subject persistently; to whine over a grievance; to harp on about one’s troubles …1875 Sc.
– YAAG to be importunate, to insist irritatingly with questions or requests, to nag or harp on …1825 Sc.
– YABB to harp on a subject; to talk incessantly …a1838 Sc.
– YAP to speak nagging or querulous way; to harp on; to complain …1824 Sc.
– YARP † to grumble, to carp, to whine, to harp on something …1827 Sc.
– YATTER to speak in a constant peevish, querulous manner; to nag, to chide, to carp, to scold, to fret, to grumble; to harp on about something …1811 Sc.
– YAUP to speak in a chattering, nagging, or querulous way; to harp on …1824 Sc.
– YAWP to speak in a chattering, nagging, or querulous way; to harp on …1824 Sc.
 
HARPOON – nouns
– HARPING-IRON † a barbed spear or javelin used for spearing whales and large fish; a harpoon …1596
– HARPING-SPEAR † a barbed spear or javelin used for spearing whales and large fish; a harpoon …1657-83
harpoon – person 
– DARTER † a harpooner …1724
harpoon – verbs 
– PITCHPOLE in whaling: to hurl a lance or harpoon in a high arc so that it descends nearly vertically …1851 Amer. dial.
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HARPSICHORD – person
– HARPSICHORDIST a harpsichord player …1878
 
HARSH – adjectives
– ABSONANT harsh, inharmonious; fig. discordant or abhorrent to reason, nature, etc; unreasonable,  unnatural …1564
– ACERB sour, with an addition of bitterness or astringency, as unripe fruit; fig. sharp and harsh …1657
– ACERBIC * of a sour, harsh, or severe character; bitter and sharp, esp. in speech, manner, or temper …1865
– ASPERT harsh, cruel …Bk1866 Sc. 
– ASPRE † harsh to the feelings; bitter, cruel, severe …c1374
– AUSTERULOUS † somewhat harsh …1731
– BARSK harsh, husky …Bk1898 Sc.
– BRASH hard, harsh, rough …1868 US
– DRACONIAN extremely harsh and cruel, rigorous, severe …1876 
– DRACONIC extremely harsh and cruel; rigorous, severe …1708 
– EFFERATE †* fierce, harsh, morose …1684
– HARD AS NAILS stern and unyielding; harsh; pitiless …1862
– HARM harsh; unkind …1889 Amer. dial.
– HARSHY †* of harsh quality or character …1583
– HASH harsh; sharp-tempered …1818 Amer. dial.
– HASK 1. harsh in sound, tone, or manner …1594 Sc.
2. bitter, sour, tart, harsh to the taste …1881 Eng. dial.
– HASKY 1. harsh, rough, coarse, unyielding …1848 Eng. dial.
2. harsh, bitter …1878 Eng. dial.
3. ill-natured, harsh, severe …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– JANGLY harsh-sounding, inharmonious, discordant …a1800
– KEEN † fierce, savage (chiefly used of animals); cruel; harsh (to a person) …a1000
– MAROONJUS harsh, stern; outrageous; obstreperous, …1864 Sc.
– MORUNGEOUS harsh, stern; outrageous; obstreperous, …1864 Sc.
– NESH †* not harsh or violent …a1225
– RAGGLISH severe, harsh …Bk1905 Sc.
– RAGLISH severe, harsh …Bk1905 Sc.
– SAIR of persons: harsh in discipline, treatment, or judgement; stern, severely censorious; niggardly, driving hard bargains …1768 Sc.
– SAVAGE † rude, harsh, ungentle …a1300
– SOLID harsh, severe; unreasonable; unfair …1915 Aust. sl.
– STREPEROUS † noisy, harsh-sounding, loud, boisterous …1637
– TARF 1. coarse, harsh, acrid; rough in manner …1880 Sc.
2. harsh, bad-tempered, rough-spoken …1887 Sc.
– TARGING harsh, censorious, domineering …1898 Sc.
– TART harsh, severe …1893 Eng. dial.
– TETRICOUS † sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose …1727
– UNCANNY harsh, unkind, rude; severe, esp. used of a blow or fall …1773 Sc.. & Eng. dial.
– YARKING grating, harsh …1895 Eng. dial.
harsh – nouns 
– ACERBITY a bitter experience; a harsh or sharp comment, etc. …E17
– RASPER a person or thing of sharp, harsh, or unpleasant character …1839 sl.
– ROUGH END OF THE PINEAPPLE, THE harsh, unfair or inequitable treatment; a raw deal …1971 Aust. colloq.
harsh – person 
– CALF’S-TONGUE a person who is mild or harsh-spoken according to circumstance …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– COW’S-TONGUE a person who is mild or harsh-spoken according to circumstance …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– RASPER a person or thing of sharp, harsh, or unpleasant character …1839 sl.
harsh – verbs 
– BITTER-MOUTH to speak harshly …1947 US sl.
– DEAL to cause trouble for, to treat harshly …1920s US Black sl.
– EAT RAZOR BLADES to speak harshly and offensively …1972 Barbados sl.
– EFFERATE † to render fierce or harsh…1658
– HARSH † to give a harsh sound; to creak …1583
– HARSHEN * to render harsh …1824
– OOL to treat harshly, to ill-use, to bully; to wreck the health or spirits of …1832 Sc.
 
HARSHLY – adverbs
– EAGERLY † sharply, pungently, keenly; violently, harshly, severely …1377
– HARD AND SHARP cruelly, harshly …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
HARSHNESS – nouns
– ACERBITUDE † sourness, harshness in taste, bitterness …1731
– ACERBITY of men, their words and actions: sharpness mingled with bitterness, keen harshness …1572
– FELLNESS † fierceness, harshness, savagery; cruelty; malignity; also, sternness, severity …c1410
– HARDLAIK † hardship, harshness, severity …c1400
– RADDOUR † severity, harshness, harsh treatment …a1400-50 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– UNBENEVOLENCE * unkindness; harshness …1688
harshness – phrases
– MORE KICKS THAN HALFPENCE more harshness than kindness …1823
 
HARSH-SOUNDING – adjectives
– CACOPHONIOUS harsh-sounding, having a disagreeable sound …1833
– RAUCID * hoarse, raucous, harsh-sounding …1831
 
HARVARD – person
– HARVARDIAN a student or graduate of Harvard University …1702
– HARVY a Harvard student …1845 US college sl.
 
HARVEST – person
– HARVEST-BIRD any person born at the time of harvest …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARVESTER a harvest labourer …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARVEST LADY the second reaper in the row, who supplies, or supplied, my lord’s place on his occasional absence, but does not seem to have been ever so regularly greeted by the title, except on the day of harvest-home …Bk1830
– HARVEST LORD the principal reaper, who goes first, and whose motions regulate those of his followers …1573
– HARVEST QUEEN 1. a young woman chosen from the reapers to whom was given a post of honour at the harvest-home …1579
2. the female ‘mate’ of the harvest-lord; the second reaper  …a1825
– HARVESTER a man who reaps and gathers in the harvest …1589
– HARVEST-HAND a reaper in the harvest-field …1891
– HARVEST-HIND a reaper in the harvest-field …1697
– HARVESTMAN a labourer in the harvest field; a reaper; especially one who leaves home to obtain harvest work …1552
– HARVEST-SWAIN a reaper in the harvest-field …1648
– HARVEST-WENCH a female reaper …1759
– HARVEST-WOMAN a female reaper …1759
– HAY INNER † one who helps bring in the hay harvest …1753 Sc.
– HEUCK, HEUK a reaper in harvest …1876 Sc.
– HEUK HAND a reaper, one who wields a sickle in harvest …1922 Sc.
– HEUKSTER a reaper in harvest …1813 Sc.
– QUOCKER one who goes harvesting to a distance …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAKER-UP the man who binds sheaves in the harvest-field …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
harvest – verbs 
– QUOKE to go shearing or harvesting at a distance from home …Bk1905 Eng. dial.