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A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

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  1. n. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
  2. n. A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
  3. n. A grain sieve.
  4. n. To play on the harp.
  5. n. 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.
  6. v. t. 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.
  7. n. 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
  8. n. a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
  9. n. a small rectangular free-reed">free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
  10. v. come back to
  11. v. play the harp