(music) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. Harpsichords originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.

(mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.

A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish. / (slang) A harmonica.

(transitive) To shoot something with a harpoon.

Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp.

A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals. / (obsolete) An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.

plural of harpy

simple past tense and past participle of harpoon

plural of harper

(biochemistry) A plant protein produced as a defensive response to a pathogen