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harm | harr |

As a proper noun harm

is , low german, derived from herman, meaning "army man".

As a noun harr is

(british|dialectal) a sea mist or harr can be (carpentry) the stile that bears the hinges of a gate.

harm

English

(wikipedia harm)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
  • That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

    • Derived terms

    * do no harm * harmer * harmless * harm's way * self-harm * unharmed

    Anagrams

    * ----

    harr

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, dialectal) A sea mist
  • * {{quote-journal, 1848, William Davidson, Observations on the Climate of Largs, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal citation
    • , passage=Fogs and harrs are unfrequent, as are constant rain; mornings of drenching flood being often succeeded by bright and beautiful days.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1890, Sarah Tytler, chapter=An Easterly Harr, Pot pourri of gifts literary and artistic, page=79 citation
    • , passage=The harr clung in a close, white drapery to trees; it swallowed up houses ; it obliterated hills.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Colin Simms, Gyrfalcon Poems citation
    • , passage=The eye rubs faintly in the fell fog, is misled by hill mist the high front coming with the Atlantic storm or the harr on the North Sea roke when there's even no moon and no star tempting to say we see him as often as ..... aurora ...}}
  • (Scotland) A wind from the east
  • * {{quote-book, 1812, , Anster Fair, a Poem citation
    • , passage=For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr }}
    Alternative forms
    * (mist) har, haar

    Usage notes

    * Fog sense often used in British English literature

    References

    * 1880 , John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language , [ page 489] * 1961 , edited by Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect , Vol. 3, page 5 *: A northern harr' Brings fine weather from far'; n.Yks.* e.Yks. MARSHALL Rur. Econ. ... The ' harr was very heavy in the marshes this mornin' (THR). 2. * 2005 , Bill Griffiths, '' A Dictionary of North East Dialect - page 80 *: ... "hare or harr' - a mist or thick fog" Brockett Newc & Nth 1829; "' harr - a strong fog or wet mist, almost verging on a drizzle" Atkinson Cleve 1868;

    Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (carpentry) The stile that bears the hinges of a gate.
  • * {{quote-book, 1987, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, The Handyman's Book: Tools, Materials and Processes Employed in Woodworking citation
    • , passage=One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr .}} ----