Harp n.
 1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
 2. Astron. A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
 3. A grain sieve. [Scot.]
 Aeolian harp. See under Aeolian.
 Harp seal Zool., an arctic seal (Phoca Grœnlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black.  Called also saddler, and saddleback.  The immature ones are called bluesides; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur.
 Harp shell Zool., a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.


 aeolian harp
      n : a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind
          passes over them [syn: aeolian lyre, wind harp]