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{ } a. [ Gr. 'alexifa`rmakos keeping off poison; 'alexein to keep off + fa`rmakon drug, poison: cf. F. alexipharmaque. ] (Med.) Of or relating to an alexipharmic or alexipharmac; warding off poison; antidotal; prophylactic. [ obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. (Med.) An antidote against poison; a counterpoison. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. [ F. anharmonique, fr. Gr. 'an priv. + &unr_; harmonic. ] (Math.) Not harmonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The
anharmonic function or
anharmonic ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to be regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; poison. ] (Med.) Antidotal; alexipharmic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To charm; to captivate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. charme, fr. L. carmen song, verse, incantation, for casmen, akin to Skr. çasman, çasā, a laudatory song, from a root signifying to praise, to sing. ] 1. A melody; a song. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With charm of earliest birds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. [ 1913 Webster ]

My high charms work. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The charm of beauty's powerful glance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Physics) a property of certain quarks which may take the value of +1, -1 or 0. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Spell; incantation; conjuration; enchantment; fascination; attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Charmed p. pr. & vb. n. Charming. ] [ Cf. F. charmer. See Charm, n. ] 1. To make music upon; to tune. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. [ 1913 Webster ]

No witchcraft charm thee! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

They, on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. [ 1913 Webster ]

I, in my own woe charmed,
Could not find death. Shak.

Syn. - To fascinate; enchant; enrapture; captivate; bewitch; allure; subdue; delight; entice; transport. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms. [ 1913 Webster ]

The voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Ps. lviii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a musical sound. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as captivated.
Syn. -- captivated. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. filled with wonder and delight.
Syn. -- beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Heb. ] A fruitful field. [ 1913 Webster ]

Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. Deut. xviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who delights and attracts the affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An enchantress. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding with charms. “His charmful lyre.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. [ 1913 Webster ]

How charming is divine philosophy. Milton.

Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning.

-- Charm"ing*ly, adv. -- Charm"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of charms. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Countercharmed p. pr. & vb. n. Countercharming. ] To destroy the effect of a charm upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. décharmer. See Charm. ] To free from a charm; to disenchant. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Hinduism) The basic principles of the cosmos; also: an ancient sage in Hindu mythology worshipped as a god by some lower castes;. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + en (L. in) + charm. ] To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unharmonious; discordant. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [ our nature ]. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'enarmoniko`s, 'enarmo`nios fitting, accordant; 'en in + "armoni`a harmony: cf. F. enharmonique.]

1. (Anc. Mus.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate. [1913 Webster]

2. (Mus.) (a) Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A♭ for G♯. (b) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys. [1913 Webster]

adv. In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. -eu + harmonic. ] (Mus.) Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. çrama toil, fatigue. ] 1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Syn. -- Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Harmed p. pr. & vb. n. Harming. ] [ OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n. ] To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though yet he never harmed me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No ground of enmity between us known
Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. harmaline See Harmel. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. harmal. ] (Bot.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. “ Most harmful hazards.” Strype.

--Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ See Harmaline. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

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

n. (Mus.) A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. fr. L. harmonicus harmonic. See Harmonic, n. ] 1. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small wind musical instrument shaped like a flat bar with holes along the thin edges, held in the hand and producing notes from multiple vibrating reeds arranged inside along its length; it was formerly called the harmonicon. See harmonicon. [ PJC ]

/mhw>, a. [ L. harmonicus, Gr. "armoniko`s; cf. F. harmonique. See Harmony.] 1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. [1913 Webster]

Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. Pope. [1913 Webster]

2. (Mus.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body. [1913 Webster]

3. (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines, motions, and the like. [1913 Webster]

Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. --
Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances. --
Harmonic motion, the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two or more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. --
Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion. --
Harmonic series or
Harmonic progression. See under Progression. --
Spherical harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait. --
Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonia, and harmony. --
Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord. [1913 Webster]

adv. 1. In an harmonical manner; harmoniously. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) In harmonical progression. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Mus.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. harmonieux. See Harmony. ] 1. Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.

-- Har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Har*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "armoni`a harmony + fwnh` sound.] (Mus.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. harmoniste. ] 1. One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect, founded in Würtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Harmony. ] A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. capable of being made harmonious or consistent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of harmonizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Harmonized p. pr. & vb. n. Harmonizing ] [ Cf. F. harmoniser. ] 1. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody. [ 1913 Webster ]