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.
Phrases and idioms:
harp-seal a Greenland seal, Phoca groenlandica, with a harp-shaped dark mark on its back.
Derivatives:
harper n. harpist n.
Etymology: OE hearpe f. Gmc