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Har"lot, a. Wanton; lewd; low; base. Shak.

Har"lot, v. i. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness. Milton.

Har"lot*ize (-z), v. i. To harlot. [Obs.] Warner.

Har"lot*ry (-r), n. 1. Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

2. The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden.

3. Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

4. A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage. [Obs.]

He sups to-night with a harlotry.

Shak.

Harm (h‰rm), n. [OE. harm, hearm, AS. hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram' shame, Skr. Árama toil, fatigue.] 1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms.

Shak.

Syn. -- Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief.

Harm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harmed (h‰rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harming.] [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.] To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

Though yet he never harmed me.

Shak.

No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.

Milton.

Har"ma*line (h‰r"m*ln or -ln), n. [Cf. F. harmaline See Harmel.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.

Har*mat"tan (h‰r*mt"tan), n. [F. harmattan, prob. of Arabic origin.] A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.

Har"mel (h‰r"ml), n. [Ar. harmal.] (Bot.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.

Harm"ful (h‰rm"fl), a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype.

--Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.

Har"mine (h‰r"mn or -mn), n.[See Harmaline.] (Chem.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.

Harm"less (h‰rm"ls), a. 1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton

Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; uninjured; unharmed.