harp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An instrument having an upright triangular frame consisting of a pillar, a curved neck, and a hollow back containing the sounding board, with usually 46 or 47 strings of graded lengths that are played by plucking with the fingers.
• noun Any of various ancient and modern instruments of similar or U-shaped design.
• noun Informal A harmonica.
• noun Something, such as a pair of vertical supports for a lampshade, that resembles a harp.
• intransitive verb To play a harp.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To play on the harp; play as on a harp.
• To speak often of something, especially so often as to be tiresome or vexing; speak with reiteration; especially, to speak or write with monotonous repetition: usually with on or upon.
• To give forth as a harp gives forth sound; give expression to, or utter.
• To produce some specified effect upon by playing on the harp.
• To sift or separate by means of a harp or screen: as, to harp grain; to harp sand. See harp, n., 4 and 5.
• noun A musical instrument with strings which are played by being plucked with the fingers.
• noun [capitalized] A constellation, otherwise called Lyra or the Lyre.
• noun Same as harper, 2.
• noun An oblong implement, consisting of a frame filled up with parallel wires resembling the strings of a harp, used as a screen; a grain-sieve.
• noun A sparred shovel for filling coal.
• noun In a seutching-machine, a grating through which the refuse falls as the revolving beater drives the fibers forward.
• noun A figure, likened to a harp or saddle, on the back of the adult harp-seal.
• noun Hence The harp-seal, or harper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To play on the harp.
• intransitive verb 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.
• intransitive verb [Colloq.] to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence.
• transitive verb 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.
• noun A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
• noun (Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
• noun Scot. A grain sieve.
• noun See under Æolian.
• noun (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.
• noun (Zoöl.) a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
• noun colloquial A harmonica.
• verb To repeatedly mention a subject.
• verb transitive To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
• verb transitive To play (a tune) on the harp.
• verb transitive To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun 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
• verb come back to
• noun a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
• verb play the harp
• noun 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