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. harp-seal a Greenland seal, Phoca groenlandica, with a harp-shaped dark mark on its back. harper n. harpist n.
[ OE hearpe f. Gmc ]