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]