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<blockquote>Chymists have been more <b>happy</b> in finding experiments than the causes of them. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; <as>as, <ex>happy</ex> hours, <ex>happy</ex> thoughts</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Happy</b> is that people, whose God is the Lord. <i>Ps. cxliv. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The learned is <b>happy</b> Nature to explore, The fool is <b>happy</b> that he knows no more. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.</def>

<blockquote>One gentleman is <b>happy</b> at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Happy family</col>, <cd>a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.</cd> -- <col>Happy-go-lucky</col>, <cd>trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "<i>Happy-go-lucky<i> carelessness."</cd></cs>

<i>W. Black.</i>

<h1>Hapuku</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha*pu"ku</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large and valuable food fish (<spn>Polyprion prognathus</spn>) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.</def>

<h1>Haquebut</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Haque"but</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Hagbut</er>.</def>

<h1>Hara-kiri</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha"ra-ki`ri</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Jap., stomach cutting.]</ety> <def>Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, <asp>hari-kari</asp>.</def>

<i>W. E. Griffis.</i>

<h1>Harangue</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha*rangue"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>harangue</ets>: cf. Sp. <ets>arenda</ets>, It. <ets>aringa</ets>; lit., a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. <ets>aringo</ets> arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. <ets>hring</ets> ring, anything round, ring of people, G. <ets>ring</ets>. See <er>Ring</er>.]</ety> <def>A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.</def>

<blockquote>Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and <b>harangues</b> are heard. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Harangue</er>, <er>Speech</er>, <er>Oration</er>.</syn> <usage> <i>Speech</i> is generic; an <i>oration</i> is an elaborate and rhetorical speech; an <i>harangue</i> is a vehement appeal to the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an <i>harangue</i> to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue <i>harangues</i> the populace on the subject of their wrongs.</usage>

<h1>Harangue</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha*rangue"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Harangued</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Haranguing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>haranguer</ets>, It. <ets>aringare</ets>.]</ety> <def>To make an harangue; to declaim.</def>

<h1>Harangue</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha*rangue"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To address by an harangue.</def>

<h1>Harangueful</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha*rangue"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of harangue.</def>

<h1>Haranguer</h1> <Xpage=669>

<hw>Ha*rang"uer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.</def>

<blockquote>With them join'd all th' <b>harangues</b> of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>