Category:Harper

Harp"er, n. Etym: [AS. hearpere.]

1. A player on the harp; a minstrel. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.

2. A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.