vt fig.: to equip or furnish for defense.
2. harness ·vt to make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. also used figuratively.
3. harness ·vt to dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
4. harness ·noun the equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, ·etc.; gear; tackling.
5. harness ·noun originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
6. harness ·noun the part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.