man vice, but worse than brutal. L'Efrange.- Enflam'd with fury and fierce hardyhead, Boldly affault the necromancer's hall, * HARDIMENT. n. J. [from hardy, hardiment, adv. French.] Courage; ftoutnefs; bravery. Not in ufe. But full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthful knight could not for aught be ftaid. Spenfer. On the gentle Severn's fedgy bank, * HARDINESS. n. f. [bardiesse, French; from bardy.] 1. Hardship; fatigue.-They are all valiant and hardy; great endurers of cold, hunger, and all hardiness. Spenfer. 2. Stoutnefs; courage; bravery. If we, with thrice fuch powers left at home, · Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, Let us be worried; and our nation lofe The name of hardiness and policy. Shak. -Perkin had gathered together a power of all nations, neither in number, nor in the bardiness and courage of their perfons contemptible. Bacon.--He has the courage of a rational creature, and fuch an hardiness we should endeavour by cuftom and ufe to bring children to. Locke-Criminal as you are, you avenge yourself against the hardiness of one that should tell you of it. Spelator. 3 Effrontery; confidence. (1. HARDING, John, author of an English Chronicle, flourished in the 15th century, and died in 1461. and 1567. He died in 1570. His works fhow him to have been a man of learning and abilities. HARDINGE, Nicholas, Efq; of Canbury, in Surry, grandfon of Sir Robert Hardinge, was fellow of King's College, Cambridge, M. P. for Eye in Suffolk, and a fecretary of the Treafury. He was well verfed in hiftory, law and antiquities, and his poems are much admired. His Latin poems, in every measure and ftile, are published in the Mafe Anglicana. In Dec. 1738, he married Jane Pratt, fifter to Lord Camden; and died 9th April 1785. HARDINGHEN, a town of France in the dep of the Straits of Calais, 15 m. NE. of Boulogne. HARDINGS, a town of the United States in Virginia; 27 miles SW. of Washington. HARDION, James, an ingenious French au thor, and member of the Academy of Infcriptions born at Tours, in 1686. He published an Uni verfal History in 18 vols. and a Treatife on French Poetry and Rhetoric. He died in 1766. HARDISLEBEN, a town of Upper Saxony. HARDKNOT HILL, a fteep mountain of Cum berland, SE. of Copeland Forest. HARDLABOURED. adj. [hard and labour. Swift HARDLY. adv. [from hard.] 1. With diff culty; not eafily.-Touching things which gene rally are received, although in themfelves they b moft certain, yet, because men prefume then granted of all, we are hardlieft able to bring fuc proof of their certainty as may fatisfy gainlayer when fuddenly and betides expectation they re quire the fame at our hands, Hooker-There ar but a few, and they endued with great ripenes wit and judgment, free from all fuch affairs as migh trouble their meditations, inftructed in the fhar eft and fubtleft points of learning; who hav and that very hardly, been able to find out bi only the immortality of the foul. Hooker-Go hath delivered a law as tharp as the two-edge fword, piercing the very clofeft and moft unfearch able corners of the heart, which the law of natu can hardly, human laws by no means, poflib reach unto. Hooker.-There are in living creature parts that nourish and repair cafily, and parts th nourish and repair hardly. Baron.-The bark thofe trees are more clofe and foft than thofe of oa! and athes, whereby the mofs can the hardlier illu out. Bacon. The father, mother, daughter they invite; (2.) HARDING, Thomas, D. D. one of thofe time-ferving priefts, whofe verfatile conduct reflect no honour on any profeffion, was born in Devonhire, in 1512. He was educated at Wincheftër; chofen fellow of New College Oxford, in 1536; and appointed profeffor of Hebrew by king Henry VIII, whose half reforming principles he adopted. On the acceffion of Edward VI, he became a complete protestant; but on that of the bloody Mary, he faw his error, recanted and be--Falfe confidence is easily taken up, and hara came a confirmed Papift; whereupon he was made laid down. South. 2. Scarcely; fcant; not light prebendary of Winchester, and treasurer of the ly; with no likelihood.cathedral of Salisbury. Being deprived of his preferments on the acceffion of Q. Elizabeth, he went to Louvaine, where he began his famous controverfy with Bishop Jewel, against whom he wrote 7 tracts in favour of Popery, between 1555 Dryde The fish that once was caught, new bait wi They are worn, lord conful; fo Fairy Quee Sha -Hard Hardly fhall you find any one fo bad, but he nor labour will be much. Mortimer. 8. Cruelty The wand'ring breath was on the wing to part, Weak was the pulfe, and hardly heav'd the Dryden. heart. -There is hardly a gentleman in the nation, who hath not a near alliance with fome of that body. Sft. 4. Grudgingly; as an injury.— If I unwittingly Have aught committed that is hardly born By any in this prefence, I defire To reconcile nie. Shak. . Severely; unfavourably. If there are some reaLos inducing you to think hardly of our laws, are tate reafons demonftrative, are they neceflary, mere poffibilities only? Hooker. 6. Rigoroufy; oppreflively. Many men believed that he was cardly dealt with. Clarendon.-They are now in prilon, and treated hardly enough; for there are fifteen dead within two years. Addifon.-They have begun to fay, and to fetch inftances, where be has in many things been hardly ufed. Swift. 7. Unwelcomely; harthly.-Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man; and, however foftened, goes but ill down. Locke. 8. Not foftly; not tenderly; not delicately.— Heav'n was her canopy; bare earth her bed; So hardly lodg'd. Dryden. HARDMARK, a town of Norway. HARDMOUTHED. adj. { hard and mouth.] Difobedient to the rein; not fentible of the bit. Tis time my hardmouth'dcourfers to controul, Apt to run riot, and tranfgrefs the goal. Dryden. But who can youth, let loofe to vice, reftrain? When once the bardmouth'd horfe has got therein, He's paft thy power to stop. Dryden. HARDNESS. n. f. [from hard.] 1. Dumy; power of refiftance in bodies.-Hardness is a firm coletion of the parts of matter that make up males of a fenfible bulk, fo that the whole does not eatly change its figure. Locke. From the various combinations of thefe corpufcles happen all the varieties of the bodies formed out of them, in covar, tafte, fmell hardness, and fpecifick gravity. Wdward. 2. Difficulty to be understood.--This label on my bosom Is fo from fenfe in bardness, that I can Make no collection of it. Shakespeare. Difficulty to be accomplished. It was time w or never to sharpen my intention to pierce ugh the bardness of this enterprize. Sidney. cerning the duty itfelf, the hardness thereof is fuch as needeth much art. Hooker.-4. Scar ; penury. The tenants poor, the hardness of the times, Are all excufes for a fervant's crimes. Sauift. Onduracy; profligateneis-Every commilhon introduces into the foul a certain degree of Paranefs, and an aptnefs to continue in that fin. ⚫t. 6. Coarseness; harthnets of look. By vartuous behaviour they compenfate the hardof their favour, and by the pulchritude of fouls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies. Rap. 7 Keeunefs; vehemence of weather or feafons.-If the hardness of the Winthum fpoil them, neither the lofs of feed VOL. XI. PART 1, That if we fail in our requeft, the blame 9. Stiffness; harfhnefs.--Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are infufferable hardnesses, and more like a rock than a natural garment. Dryd. 10. Faulty parfimony; ftinginefs. (2.) HARDNESS (1, def. 1.) in bodies, is a property directly oppofite to fluidity, by which they refift the impreffion of any other fubftance, fometimes in an extreme degree. As fluidity has been found to confist in the motion of the parti cles of a body upon one another, in confequence of a certain action of the univerfal fluid, or elementary fire, among them; we muft conclude that hardnefs confifts in the abfeqce of this action, or a deficiency of what is called latent heat. This is confirmed by obferving, that there is an intermediate ftate betwixt hardnefs and fluidity, in which bodies will yield to a certain force though they still make a confiderable refittance. This is principally obferved in the metals, and is the foundation of their ductility. It appears, indeed, that this laft property, as well as fluidity, is entirely dependent on a certain quantity of latent heat abforbed, or otherwife acting within the fubftance itself; for all the metals are rendered hard by hammering, and foft by being put again into the fire and kept there for fome time. The former operation renders them hot as well as hard; probably, as Dr Black obferves, becaufe the particles of metal are thus forced nearer one another, and thofe of fire fqueezed out from among them. By keeping them for fome time in the fire, that element infi nuates itself again among the particles, and arranges them in the fame manner as before, fo that the ductility returns. By a fecond hammering this property is again deftroyed, returning on a repetition of the heating, or annealing, as it is cal led; and fo on, as often as we pleafe. Hardness appears to diminish the cohefion of bodies in fome degree, though their fragility does by no means keep pace with their hardnefs. Thus, glafs is very hard and very brittle; but fint, though ftill harder than glafs, is much lefs brittle. Among the metals, however, these two properties feeni to be more connected, though even here the con nection is by no means complete. Steel, the hardelt of all the metals, is indeed the most brittle; but lead, the fofteft, is not the most ductile. Nei. ther is hardness connected with the fpecific gravity of bodies; for a diamond, the hardest fubflance in nature, is little more than half the weight of the lighteft metal. As little is it connected with the coldnets, electrical properties, or any other quality with which we are acquainted: fo that though the principle above laid down may be ac cepted as a general foundation for our inquiries, a great number of particulars remain yet to be difcovered before we can offer any fatisfactory explanation. All bodies become harder by cold; K but medals, 4to. 4. A commentary on the New Teltament, folio; in which he pretends that our Saviour and his apoftles preached in Latin, &c. but this is not the only means of their doing fo, for fome become hard by heat as well as cold. Thus, water becomes hard by cold when it is frozen, but it becomes much harder when its steam is paffed over red hot iron, and it enters the fubftance of the metal, by an union with which it becomes almoft as hard as glass. ces. (3.) HARDNESS AND GRAVITY OF DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES. Mr Quift and others have conftructed tables of the hardness of different fubftanThe method pursued in constructing these tables was, by obferving the order in which they were able to cut or make any impreffion upon one another. The following table, extracted from M. Magellan's edition of Cronstedt's Mineralogy, was taken from Dr Quift, Sir T. Bergman, and Mr Kirwan. The first column fhows the hardness, and the fecond the fpecific gravity. Diamond from Ormus Pink diamond Ruby fpinell Deep blue fapphire 3,3 4,3 395 3:4 3,8 20 3.7 19 3,4 Bluith diamond 19 Yellowish diamond 19 3.3 Ruby 17. Pale ruby from Brazil Ditto paler Topaz Whitih ditto HARDOYE, a town of the French republic, in the dept. of Lys, and ci-devant province of Auftrian Flanders, 24 miles NNE. of Rouffelser. HARDS. n. f. The refufe or coarfer part of flax. * HARDSHIP. [from bard.] 1. Injury; oppref fion.-They are ripe for a peace, to enjoy what we have conquered for them; and fo are we, to recover the effects of their hardships upon us. Swift. 2. Inconvenience; fatigue.—they were expofed to hardship and penury. Spratt. You could not undergo the toils of war, Nor bear the hardships that your leaders hore. Addin. In journeys or at home, in war or peace, By hardships many, many fall by ease. Prior. *HARDWARE. n. f. [bard and ware] Manufac tures of metal. * HARDWAREMAN. n. f. (bardware and man.] A maker or feller of metalline manufactures.→ One William Wood, an hardwareman, obtains by fraud a patent in England to coin copper to pafs in Ireland. Swift. (1.) HARDWICK, a town of the United States, in Georgia, at the mouth of the Ogeechee, 18 miles S. by W. of Savannah. (2-29.) HARDWICK, the name of 27 English towns and villages: viz. of one each in the counties of Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Derby, Huntingdon, Monmouth, Northampton, Nottingham, Rutland, Stafford, Surry, Warwick, and York: of 2 each in thofe of Durham, Gloucefter, Hereford, and Salop; and of 3 each in Norfolk and Oxford hires: alfo of a foreft near Halifax, Yorkfhire. HARDWICKE, Earl of. See YORKE. (1.) HARDY, Alexander, a French dramatic author, of confiderable merit, who is faid to have wrote 600 pieces, of which however only 41 were publifhed. He died in 1630. (2, 3.) HARDY, Sir Charles, a late eminent Bri tish admiral, grandfon of a celebrated English naval commander of the fame name, who flourished in QAnne's reign. Sir Charles commanded the chan nel fleet in 1779, when he died at Spithead. See ENGLAND, 100. (4.) * HARDY. adj. [hardi, Fr.] 1. Bold; brave; ftout; daring; refolute.-Try the imagination fome in cock fights, to make one cock more hardy HARDOCK. n.f. I fuppofe the fare with and the other more cowardly. Bacon. burdock. Why he was met ev'n now, Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds, With bardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers. Shake HARDOUIN, John, a learned French Jefuit in the 18th century, remarkable for the paradoxes he advanced in his writings; in particular, That all the works of the ancient profane writers, except Cicero's works, Virgil's Georgics, Horace's fatires and epiftles, and Pliny's natural hiftory, are more forgeries. He died at Paris in 1729, aged 83. His principal works are, 1. An edition of Pliny's natural hiftory, with notes, which is much efteemed. z. An edition of the councils, which made much noife. 3. Chronology reftored by Recite The feats of Amazons, the fatal fight Betwixt the hardy queen and hero knight. Dryd -Who is there hardy enough to contend with the reproach which is prepared for thole, who dare venture to diffent from the received opinions of their country? Locke. Could thirft of vengeance, and defire of fame, Excite the female breaft with martial flame? And fhall not love's diviner pow'r infpire More bardy virtue, and more gen'rous fire? Prior 2. Strong; hard; firm.-Is a man confident of hi pretent ftrength? An unwholfome blaft may ha in pieces his bardy fabrick. South. 3. Confident impudent: vicioufly flubborn. (1.) HARE, Dr Francis, an English bishop, bre the floweft: but the wandering hares are the most dangerous to follow; for they are cunning in the ways and mazes of the fields, and, knowing the neareft ways, run up the hills and rocks, to the confufion of the dogs, and the difcouragement of the hunters. See HUNTING. Hares and rabbits are very mischievous to nurieries and new planted orchards, by peeling off the barks of the young trees: to prevent which, fome bind ropes about the trees up to fuch a height as they are able to reach; fome daub them with tar; but though this keeps off the hares, it is itself mifchievous to the trees; but this hurtful property of it is in fome degree taken off by mixing any kind of fat or grease with it, and incorporating them well over the fire. This mixture is to be rubbed over the lower part of the trees in November, and will preserve them till that time next year, without any danger from thefe animals. It is only in winter, when other food is fcarce, that thefe creatures feed on the barks of trees. Thofe who have the care of warrens, have an odd way of fattening hares, viz. topping up their ears with wax, and rendering them deaf. The hare is fo timorous, that the continually liftens after every noife, and will run a long way on the leaft fufpicion of danger; fo that he always eats in terror, and runs herself out of flesh continually. Thefe are both prevented by her feeding in a fafe place, without apprehension, (6) HARE, JAVA. See CAVI, N° II, f 3. (7.) HARE, PATAGONIAN. See CAVIA, N° VI. at Eton fchool, and a member of King's college, Cambridge; where he had the tuition of the marquis of Blandford, only son of the illuftrious duke of Manborough, who appointed him chaplain ge seral to the army. He afterwards obtained the deanry of Worcester, and from thence was promoted to the bishopric of Chichester, which he heid with the deanery of St Paul's to his death, 1740. He was difmiffed from being chaplain to George I. in 1718, from party prejudices. A. bout the end of queen Anne's reign he published a remarkable pampniet, entitled, The difficulties and difcouragements which attend the ftudy of the fcriptures in the way of private judgment: in order to new, that fince fuch a ftudy of the fcriptures is an indispensable duty, it concerns all Chriftian focieties to remove, as much as poffible, thofe difcouragements. In this work, his manner appear. ed to be fo ludicrous, that the convocation fell upon him, as if he had been really against the tudy of the holy scriptures. He publifhed many pieces against bishop Hoadly, in the Bangorian Controverfy; and other learned works, which were collected after his death, and published in 4 vols. 8vo. 2. An edition of Terence, with notes, in 40. 3. The book of Palms in the Hebrew, put into the original poetical metre, 4to. In this Laft work, he pretends to have difcovered the Hebrew metre, which was fuppofed to be irretrieva. biy lott. But his hypothetis, though defended by fone, has been confuted by Dr Lowth in his Metre Hareana brevis confutatio, annexed to his lectures De Sacra Po-fi Hebræorum. (.)HARE and HERE, differing in pronunciation only, t nignify both an army and a lord. So Harald is a general of an army, Hareman, a chief man in the army; Herwin, a victorious army ; which are much like Stratocles, Polemarchus, and Hegetratus among the Greeks. Gibson's Camden. (3) HARE, in geography, an island near the coult of Norway, 20 miles in circumference. Lon. 4. 33. E. Lat. 62. 20. N. (4) HARE. n. f. [bara, Saxon; karb, Erfe.] 1. A mall quadruped, with long ears and a fhort tail, that moves by leaps, remarkable for timidity, giance, and fecundity; the common game of busters. Difmay'd not this Our captains Macbeth and Banquo? As fparrows, eagles; or the bare, the lion. Shak. -We view in the open champaign a brace of swift grey-hounds courfing a good ftout and well-breathed bare. More. Your dreffings must be with bare's far. Wifeman. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid bare. Thomf. A conftellation. The bare appears, whofe active rays supply A nimble force, and hardly wings deny. Creech. (5) HARE, in zoology. See LEPUS. The hare a beaft of venery, but peculiarly fo termed in its ad year. There are reckoned 4 forts of them, from the places of their abode : viz. the mountain, the field, the marsh, and the wandering hares. The mountain hares are the swifteft; the field bares are not fo nimble; thofe of the marshes are To HARE. v. n. [barier, Fr.] To fright; to hurry with terrour.-To bare and rate them, is not to teach but vex them. Locke. (1.)* HAREBELL. n. f. [bare and bell.] A blue flower campaniform. Thou shalt not lack The flow'r that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor Shakefp. The azur'd barebell, like thy veins. (2.) HAREBELL. See HYACINTHUS. * HAREBRAINED. adj. [from bare the verb and brain. Volatile; unfettled; wild; fluttering; hur ried. That barebrained wild fellow begins to play the fool, when others are weary of it. Bacon. *HAREFOOT. n. f. [hare and foot.] 1. A bird. Ainfworth. 2. An herb. Ainsworth. HARELINLAND. See HARRIA. (1.)* HARELIP. n.. A fiffure in the upper lip with want of fubftance, a natural defect. Quincy. The blots of nature's hand Shall not in their iffue ftand; Never mole, barelip, nor fcar, Shall upon their children be. Shakespeare. -The third stitch is performed with pins or needles, as in barelips. Wifeman. (2.) HARELIP. See SURGERY, Index. HARENE, a town of Sweden, in W. Gothland. HARENGUS. See CLUPEA, No 4. HARESBURY, an ancient borough of Wiltfhire, on the Willy, near Warminster, 94 miles from London, in oid records called Height bury, or Heyt/bury; and now written HATCHBURY. 1 was once the feat of the emprefs Matildis; and has fairs May 14, and Sept. 15. It has fent mem K 2 bers Dr JOHNSON feems not to have adverted, that these words differ in orthography as well as in pro Aunciation. Interdum dormitat bonus Homerus! bers to parliament ever fince Henry VI. It has an alms-houfe for 12 poor men and a woman; a collegiate church with 4 prebendaries, and a free fchool; and is governed by a bailiff and burgeffes. (1.) HARESEAR. n. f. [bupleurum, Latin.] A plant. Miller. (2.) HARE'S EAR, in botany. See BUPLEURUM. (3.) HARE'S EAR, BASTARD. See PHYLLIS. HARE'S LETTUCE. See SONCHUS. HARFAN, a town of Hungary, 4 m. E. of Siclos. HARFLEUR, an ancient town of France, in the dept. of Lower Seine, and late prov. of Normandy. Its fortifications have been demolithed, and its harbour choked up. It was taken by the English, by affault, in 1415, and 1440. Its po. pulation is about 2,400. It is feated on the Lizarda, near the Seine, 5 miles from Havre de Grace, 36 NW. of Rouen, and 106 of Paris. Lon. o. 17. E. Lat. 49. 30. N. (1.) HARFORD, a county of Maryland, on the Western shore. (2.) HARFORD, or BUSHTOWN, a town in the above county, (N° 1.) feated on Bush Creek, 25 miles E. by N. of Baltimore, and 77 SW. of Philadelphia. cafes, where the fick perfon cannot be cured without the prefence of the ferpent, a pure virgin must come to folicit him. To avoid inconveniences on this head, they take care to choose a very young girl indeed. She is decked out in her beft clothes, and crowned with flowers. She puts herself in a praying attitude; and as the priests are inclined, the ferpent comes out, makes circles round the young fuppliant, and goes and repotes on her. The virgin, accompanied by a vaft multitude, carries him in triumph amidst the general acclamation. No human reasoning would perfuade these ignorant and credulous Egyptians that they are the dupes of a few impoftors: they believe in the ferpent Haridi as firmly as in the prophet." HARJEDALEN, a province of Sweden in Nordland, about 100 miles long, and from 40 to co broad; abounding in pattures, cattle, woods, mines, lakes, rivers, and fish. (1.) * HARIER. #. f. [from hare.] A dog for hunting hares. Ainsworth. (2.) HARIFRS, or HARRIERS, are endowed with an admirable gift of smelling, and are very bold in the purfuit of game. See CANIS, I, vi; Ne 6. HARING, a town of Germany, in the bithop ric of Brixen, 6 miles SSW. of Brixen. (1.) HARIOT, or HERIOT, in law, a due belonging to a lord at the death of his tenant, confifting of the best beaft, either horfe, or cow, or ox, which he had at the time of his death; and in fome manors the best goods, piece of plate, &c. are called hariots. (2.) HARIOT, Thomas. See HARRIOT. HARISCHON, Aaron, a learned rabbi, and KARAITE, in the 15th century; who wrote a Hebrew grammar, printed at Conftantinople, in 1581: probably the fame with AARON, the Caraite, a Jewith phyfician at Conftantinople, who, about 1204, wrote a Commentary on the Pentateuch, printed at Jena, in folio, in 1710, and of which there is an original MS. copy in the National Li brary at Paris. HARK. interj. [It is originally the imperative of the verb bark. Lift! hear! liften What harmony is this? My good friends, bar!! Shakespeare. HARG, a fea port of Sweden, in Upland. HARGENOW, a town of Mecklenburg. HARIDI, a ferpent, worshipped at Achmim in Upper Egypt. " Upwards of a century ago (fays Mr Savary,) a religious Turk called Scheilk Haridi died here. He paffed for a faint among the Mahometans; who raifed a monument to him, covered with a cupola, at the foot of the mountain. The people flocked from all parts to offer up their prayers to him. One of their priests, profiting by their credulity, perfuaded them that God had made the foul of Scheilk Haridi pass into the body of a ferpent. Many of these are found in the The bais, which are harmiefs; and he had taught one to obey his voice. He appeared with his terpent, dazzled the vulgar by his furprifing tricks, and pretended to cure all diforders. Some lucky in ftances of fuccefs, due to nature alone, and fome. tirnes to the imagination of the patients, gave him great celebrity. He foon confined his ferpent Ila ridi to the tomb, producing him only to oblige princes and perfons capable of giving him a hand-The butcher faw him upon the gallop with a iome recompence. The fucceffors of this prieft, piece of flesh, and called out, Hark ye, friend, brought up in the fame principles, found no dif- you may make the beft of your purchase. L'Eficulty in giving fanction to fo profitable a fraud. They added to the general perfuafion of his virtue that of his immortality. They had the boldness even to make a public proof of it. The ferpent was cut in pieces in prefence of the Emir, and placed for two hours under a vafe. At the inftant of lifting up the vafe, the priests, no doubt, had the addrefs to fubftitute one exactly resembling it. A miracle was proclaimed, and the immortal Haridi acquired a fresh degree of confideration. This knavery procures them great advantages. The people flock from all quarters to pray at this tomb; and if the ferpent crawls out from under the ftone, and approaches the fuppliant, it is a fign that his malady will be cured. It may be imagined, that he does not appear till an offering has been made proportioned to the quality and fickness of the different perions. In extraordinary Hark! methinks the roat that late purfu'd me, Sinks like the murmurs of a falling wind. Rowe Hark! how loud the woods Invite you forth! Thamfen. * To HARK. v.2. [Contracted from hearken.] To liften. The king, To me inveterate, barks my brother's fuit. Sha. Hudibras. If he could hear too in the dark. *HARL. n. f. 1. The filaments of flax. 2. Any filamentous fubftance.--The g、neral fort are wicker hives, made of privet, willow, or harl, daubed with cow.dung. Mortimer. (1.) HARLE, n.f. the bark of flax, which, when feparated from the ufelefs woody part; called the bcon, by proper dreffing, becomes itfelf the ufeful commodity well known by the name of FLAX. (2, 3.) HARLE, |