hɑ:p n. & v. --n. a
large upright roughly triangular musical instrument consisting of a
frame housing a graduated
series of
vertical strings, played by plucking
with the fingers. --v.intr. 1 (foll. by
on, on about)
talk repeatedly
and tediously
about. 2
play on a harp. øharp-seal a Greenland seal, Phoca groenlandica, with a harp-shaped
dark mark on
its back. øøharper n. harpist n. [OE hearpe f. Gmc]