Definition of "harpe" [harpe]

• In classical mythology, the peculiarly shaped sword of Hermes, lent by him to Perseus, who with it cut off the head of Medusa. (noun)
• In entomology, the inwardly projecting armature of the interior of the valves of the genital organs of lepidopterous insects. (noun)
• [capitalized] In ichthyology, a genus of fishes. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Will you coniure, & raise vp vnto vs from death to life old, Orpheus conferring with his wife Euridice (drawen backe againe down to the Stigian flood) & in these parts of the world, as it were by the bankes of snowey Tanais, & Hebrus descanting vpon his harpe?"
• "Consider (friendly reader) how Munster is delighted to harpe vpon one string, that when he can write nothing of an vnknowen nation which may cary any shew with it, he is faine either to bring in falshood, or often to repeat the same things, and so to become tedious vnto his reader: for he sayd a little before, that the"
• "Here we wel refreshed our selues whilest the Irish harpe sounded sweetely in our eares, and here we, who for the former extremities were in maner halfe dead, had our liues (as it were) restored vnto vs againe."