Definition of Harpies

1. Noun. (plural of harpy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Harpies

1. harpy [n] - See also: harpy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harpies

haroseths
harosets
harp
harp closure
harp closures
harp seal
harp seals
harp shackle
harpa
harpagon
harpagons
harpaxophobia
harped
harper
harpers
harpies (current term)
harpin
harping
harping iron
harping irons
harpings
harpins
harpist
harpists
harplike
harpoon
harpoon gun
harpoon line
harpoon log
harpooned

Literary usage of Harpies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The harpies ministered to the gods as the executors of vengeance. ... The most celebrated myth in which the harpies figure is that of the blind Phineus, ..."

2. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"CURIOUS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE harpies. Homer represents the harpies as the rapacious goddesses of the storms, residing near the Erinnyes, or the Ocean, ..."

3. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"harpies. — The hated and destructive squalls that burst suddenly from the mountain valleys on the coastal shipping were well described in the appearance and ..."

4. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Our readers will remember that in the conflict with the harpies, one of those half-human birds had threatened the Trojans with dire sufferings. ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The harpies ministered to the gods as the executors of vengeance. ... The most celebrated myth in which the harpies figure is that of the blind Phineus, ..."

6. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"harpies.—The hated and destructive squalls that burst suddenly from the mountain valleys on the coastal shipping were well described in the appearance and ..."

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