The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . as-tically variegated in color: specifically appliedin zoology to sundry animals.— 2. Differing incolor or decoration; fancifully varied, as a setof dishes. See harlequin service, below. She had six lovely little harlequin cups on a side-shelfin her china-closet, . . rose, and brown, and gray, andvermilion, and green, and blue. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Real Folks, xiiLHarlequin bat, an Indian chiroptcr, Scotophiltui ornatuK,of variegated coloration.—Harlequin beetl
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . as-tically variegated in color: specifically appliedin zoology to sundry animals.— 2. Differing incolor or decoration; fancifully varied, as a setof dishes. See harlequin service, below. She had six lovely little harlequin cups on a side-shelfin her china-closet, . . rose, and brown, and gray, andvermilion, and green, and blue. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Real Folks, xiiLHarlequin bat, an Indian chiroptcr, Scotophiltui ornatuK,of variegated coloration.—Harlequin beetle, a Imi^icurncoleopter of South America, Acrociniis laiKniiKitnis, withred, gray, and black elytra.—Harlequin brant, tlie Amer-ican white-fronted goose, Anser alhi/nms ganilcii. AlsoCAlled pied brant,prairie-brant, x-jcchied brant. luui speckle-/«»</. —Harlequin cabbage-bug. See cabbage-bug.—Harlequin duck, a sea-duck of the subfamily Fuliguli-n(V, formerly known as Ana^f or Fullgula Iiistrionica, nowHistrionicus minutus or H. torquatus (Coues); the maleis of a blackish color, fantastically spotted with white. ? v*^: Harlequin Duck [Histrioniciis mittitttis\. harlequin and reddish. It inhabits the arctic regions of both hemi-spheres, migrating south in winter.—Harlequin as AaWs^rm/i, 3.—Haxlequin service, harlequinset, in ceram., a number of pieces or utensils sutficientlyalike to form a service or set, but not identical in decora-tion : as. for instance, a number of cups and saucers of thesame or nearly the same form and size, but differing incolor. Such a set may sometimes be made up of piecesbought sepiuately; but more commonly harlequin setsare manufactured , as at the great factories ofSfevres and Meissen. — Harlequin snake, the coral-snake,Klaps ^, and otller species of this genus: so calledfrom the vaiiegation of black with red or (h;lrle-kin or -kwin), r. [< harle-quin, «.] I, intrnns. To play the d
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