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haricot — Everyday, meaning 1: A haricot (haricot bean) is a small white bean, the kind used to make baked beans.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) «Haricot» is the French word for bean, as in «haricots verts» (green beans).↗ Example: Baked beans are made from haricot beans.↗ · Soak the haricot beans in water overnight.↗ · Haricot beans are full of protein.↗ · In America, haricot beans are called navy beans.↗ · Mum added haricots to the stew.↗ · (French) «Haricots verts» are thin green beans.↗

hark — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) «Hark!» is a call to listen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hark to something means to listen carefully to it.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: listen, pay attention.↗ Example: Hark!↗ Is that a bell?↗ · Hark to the wind rising over the sea!↗ · Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!↗ (Prophets JER.48.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark! battle is in the land, and great destruction.↗ (Prophets JER.50.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!↗ (Prophets ISA.13.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark! is not that the wind rising?↗ (The Violet Fairy Book) · Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!"↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · Hark to the raging of the angry wind, sounding above the rolling sea!↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

harken — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To listen carefully, an old spelling of "hearken."↗ It can also mean to go back to something earlier.↗ Example: This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

harlequin — Everyday, meaning 1: A harlequin is a clown character in old plays and pantomime, in a patchwork suit of bright diamonds and a mask.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Harlequin means patterned in bright diamond shapes.↗ Example: Harlequin danced in his patchwork suit.↗ · The harlequin made everyone laugh.↗ · She wore a harlequin hat.↗

harlot — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A woman who has sex for pay, or a woman who is unfaithful.↗ It is an old word.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: a woman who sells her body for sex.↗ Example: And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'↗ (Torah GEN.34.31, JPS 1917)↗ · When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.↗ (Torah GEN.38.15, JPS 1917)↗ · There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.↗ (Torah DEU.23.17, JPS 1917)↗ · How is the faithful city become a harlot!↗ (Prophets ISA.1.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!↗ (Prophets EZK.16.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'↗ (Torah GEN.34.31, JPS 1917) · When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.↗ (Torah GEN.38.15, JPS 1917) · There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.↗ (Torah DEU.23.17, JPS 1917)

harlotry — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having sex outside marriage, or being unfaithful, especially for pay.↗ It is an old word.↗ Example: And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.↗ (Torah NUM.25.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness.↗ (Torah LEV.19.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Were thy harlotries a small matter, (Prophets EZK.16.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.↗ (Prophets HOS.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · When their carouse is over, they take to harlotry; her rulers deeply love dishonour.↗ (Prophets HOS.4.18, JPS 1917)↗

harm — Everyday, meaning 1: Hurt, damage or injury to a person, animal or thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Verb: to hurt or damage someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: No harm in: it is not wrong or dangerous: «There's no harm in asking».↗ Example: Smoking harms your lungs.↗ · The dog won't harm you.↗ · Litter can harm wild animals.↗ · Keep cleaning products out of harm's way.↗ · There's no harm in asking for help.↗ · No harm done — it was just a spilled drink.↗ · The lost kitten came to no harm.↗ · Too much sugar can harm your teeth.↗ · They had done me no harm.↗ · But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, (Torah EXO.21.23, JPS 1917)↗ · But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: 'Lest peradventure harm befall him.'↗ (Torah GEN.42.4, JPS 1917)↗ · and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.↗ (Torah GEN.44.29, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'↗ (Writings 1CH.16.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.↗ (Writings PRO.3.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway; and they break through the weapons, and suffer no harm.↗ (Prophets JOL.2.8, JPS 1917)↗

harmful — Everyday, meaning 1: Harmful means causing harm: hurting people, animals, plants or things, or making them ill.↗ Example: Bleach is harmful if swallowed.↗ · Smoking is harmful to your health.↗ · Plastic in the sea is harmful to turtles.↗ · Too much sun is harmful to your skin.↗ · Some berries are harmful, so never eat wild ones.↗ · Tell an adult if you see something harmful online.↗ · Rumours can be harmful to people.↗

harmfully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that causes harm or damage.↗ Example: Some chemicals act harmfully on plants.↗ · Too much sun can affect your skin harmfully.↗ · Plastic waste harmfully affects sea life.↗ · He behaved harmfully towards others.↗ · Smoke harmfully affects your lungs.↗ · Litter harmfully changes the habitat.↗

harmless — Everyday, meaning 1: Harmless means not able to hurt or damage anyone or anything.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Harmless can mean not meant to upset anyone: harmless fun.↗ Example: That spider is harmless; it won't hurt you.↗ · It was just harmless fun, and everyone laughed.↗ · Most bacteria are harmless.↗ · A grass snake is harmless to people.↗ · Some berries look harmless but are poisonous.↗ · The dog looks fierce but it's really harmless.↗ · A joke isn't harmless if it makes someone cry.↗ · The firework fell harmlessly into the water.↗ · There she is as harmless as a lamb.↗

harmlessly — Everyday, meaning 1: Harmlessly means without causing any hurt or damage.↗ Example: The ball bounced harmlessly off the window.↗ · Most meteors burn up harmlessly in the sky.↗ · The bee flew harmlessly past my face.↗ · The joke was meant harmlessly, but it hurt her feelings.↗ · The firework fizzled out harmlessly.↗ · The storm passed harmlessly out to sea.↗ · Rain ran harmlessly off the tent.↗ · The snake slid harmlessly into the grass.↗ · This time the arrow again hit the centipede right in the middle of its head, but instead of glancing off harmlessly as before, it struck home to the creature’s brain.↗

harmonic — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Something to do with harmony, or a musical sound.↗ In these quotes it is a mistaken scan of a German word.↗ Example: Zur Harmonic wird sie erst, wenn sie aus sich selbsi ztim Vielen wird."↗ (S. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · '"Das absolute Princip dieser Harmonic sahen die Pythagoraeer in der Monas, sie ist ilinen die nur im Gedanken vorhandene mit sich scibst noch unentzweite Einheit, die das viele zu ihrem Gegensatze hat.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

harmonious — Everyday, meaning 1: Friendly and peaceful, without arguments.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (music) Having notes that sound pleasant together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fitting together nicely: «harmonious colours».↗ Example: The class worked in a harmonious way.↗ · They have a harmonious family.↗ · The choir's singing was harmonious.↗ · The garden has harmonious colours.↗ · Neighbours should try to live in harmonious peace.↗ · The music was gentle and harmonious.↗ · The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes, which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelli- gence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · 21) with the number four or ten which the principle of place value makes a harmonious one (see below about har- mony).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

harmonize — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To fit together or agree with something.↗ Example: This ]ieeuliarity harmonizes best with tjie Libjan- Uerberic alphabet, in which we actually find each of the first (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

harmonized — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Fitted together or agreed with something.↗ Example: Finding that my views on Hebrew orthography harmonized Avith those of the Sefer Yetzirah, I made an exhaustive study of it.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

harmony — Everyday, meaning 1: Harmony is when people or things live, work or fit together peacefully and agree («live in harmony»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In music, harmony is when different notes are played or sung together and sound pleasant.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A harmony is a second tune sung with the main one to make it sound richer.↗ Example: The choir sang in perfect harmony.↗ · Our class lives in harmony most days.↗ · She sang the harmony while I sang the tune.↗ · The colours of the painting are in harmony.↗ · People of different faiths live in harmony in our town.↗ · Cats and dogs can live in harmony.↗ · The band added a lovely harmony to the chorus.↗ · The first thing necessary in an army is harmony.↗ · Did their "harmony" mean the principle of position?'↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · In my opinion there is no doubt that this Mishnah belongs to tlie original Sefer Yetzirah, for it is in perfect harmony with all the original material.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · This is in per- fect harmony with the Pythagorean formula that all numbers originated from two elements, the limited (the one, 1,) and the unlimited (the Zero, 0).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

harness — Everyday, meaning 1: A set of straps put on a horse or other animal to control it or join it to a cart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A set of straps that holds a person safely, for climbing, in a car seat or in a pushchair.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To put a harness on an animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To control and use a natural force or thing: «harness the power of the wind».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To be broken in to harness means to be trained to accept hard work or discipline.↗ Example: The farmer put a harness on the horse.↗ · Climbers must wear a safety harness.↗ · Our dog pulls less on the lead when she wears a harness.↗ · Wind turbines harness the power of the wind.↗ · Buckle your baby sister's harness in the car seat.↗ · Solar panels harness energy from the sun.↗ · Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.↗ (Prophets JER.46.4, JPS 1917)↗

harp — Everyday, meaning 1: A large musical instrument with many strings stretched on a tall frame, played by plucking with the fingers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) In the Bible King David played the harp (lyre) and wrote psalms.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, informal) «Harp on» means to keep talking about the same thing in a boring or annoying way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) A harmonica, sometimes called a mouth harp or blues harp.↗ Example: She plays the harp in the school orchestra.↗ · The harp makes a soft, rippling sound.↗ · In the Bible, David played the harp for King Saul.↗ · The Irish harp is a symbol of Ireland.↗ · Stop harping on about your new trainers!↗ · Angels are often drawn with harps.↗ · And the harp played a merry tune.↗ · And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.↗ (Torah GEN.4.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; (Torah GEN.31.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.↗ (Writings PSA.108.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.↗ (Writings PSA.57.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.↗ (Writings PSA.137.2, JPS 1917)↗

harper — Everyday, meaning 1: A harper is a person who plays the harp.↗ Example: The harper played a sad tune.↗ · Harpers sang at the king's feast.↗

harpoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A harpoon is a long spear with a sharp, hooked point, often tied to a rope, used for catching whales, big fish or seals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To harpoon something is to hit or catch it with a harpoon.↗ Example: The hunter threw his harpoon at the seal.↗ · Old whaling ships carried harpoons and long ropes.↗ · The Inuit carved harpoon points from bone.↗ · The sailor harpooned a huge fish.↗ · Today most countries protect whales from harpoons.↗ · In the museum we saw a rusty harpoon gun.↗ · The harpoon was flung into the breast of the walrus, so that a smoking stream of blood spurted forth like a fountain, and besprinkled the ice.↗

harpy — Everyday, meaning 1: In Greek myths, a harpy is a monster with the face and body of a woman and the wings and claws of a bird.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rude) Harpy is an insulting word for a woman who is thought to be nasty or bossy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The harpy eagle is a huge, powerful eagle of South American rainforests.↗ Example: The harpies swooped down and stole the king's food.↗ · A harpy eagle can carry off a sloth.↗ · In the story, the hero chased the harpies away.↗ · Calling someone a harpy is rude and unkind.↗ · Harpies had sharp claws and screeched loudly.↗ · The harpy eagle is one of the strongest birds in the world.↗ · Immediately he took the shape of a harpy, and, filled with rage, was determined to devour his son, and even the Princess too, if only he could overtake them.↗