or HARPING-IRON, a spear or javelin used to strike the whales in the Greenland fishery. See WHALE FISHERY.

HARPISCHORD, the most harmonious of all the musical instruments of the stringed kind. It is played on after the manner of the organ, and is furnished with one set, sometimes with two sets of keys. The touching or striking of these keys moves a kind of little jacks, which also move a double row of chords or strings of brass or iron, stretched over four bridges on the table of the instrument.