The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . Harpies. from a Greek black-figiired Vase. (From Monumentidell Instituto.) have been to some extent confounded by modem scholarswith the sirens, which, though of kindred origin, were god-desses iif melody, even if of a sweetness that was harmfulto mankind, and were represented as women in the upperparts of thtir b-jdies and as birds below. For having caught her Joseph all alone,She HarpielikG clapd one bold tallon fast. J. Beaumonty Psyche, i. 227. These prodigie
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . Harpies. from a Greek black-figiired Vase. (From Monumentidell Instituto.) have been to some extent confounded by modem scholarswith the sirens, which, though of kindred origin, were god-desses iif melody, even if of a sweetness that was harmfulto mankind, and were represented as women in the upperparts of thtir b-jdies and as birds below. For having caught her Joseph all alone,She HarpielikG clapd one bold tallon fast. J. Beaumonty Psyche, i. 227. These prodigies [visions) . . unspeakable,Abominable, strangers at my hearthNot welcome, harpies miring every dish. Tennyson, Lucretius. Hence—2. Arapacious,grasping person; onewho is repulsively greedy and unfeeling. I will . . do you any embassage . . rather than holdthiee words conference with this harpy, Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. Acoropanyof irreligious Aarpte^, scraping, griping catch-poles. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Keader, p. 54. 3. In ornith. («) The harpy-eagle. (/>) An Eng-lish book-name.
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