Definition of "wind-harp" [wind-harp]

• Same as Æolian harp (which see, under Æolian). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She was tall, consumptive, and pale as thistledown, a flock-haired pre-Raphaelite stunner, and she had a small wind-harp which played tunes to itself by swinging in the boughs other apple trees."
• "That indescribable mixture of ease and deference, guided by refined tact, which shows the practised, high-bred man of the world, made its impression on her immediately, as the breeze on the chords of a wind-harp."
• "She was now engaged in carrying the threads of fine silk floss, which were to form the strings of this simple wind-harp, from one piece of wood to the other."