Harness \Har"ness\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harnessed} (-n[e^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Harnessing}.] [OE. harneisen; cf. F. harnacher, OF. harneschier.] 1. To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
Harnessed in rugged steel. --Rowe.
A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear. --Chaucer.
2. Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense. --Dr. H. More.
3. To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
Harnessed to some regular profession. --J. C. Shairp.
{Harnessed antelope}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Guib}.
{Harnessed moth} (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid moth ({Arctia phalerata} of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.
Harness \Har"ness\ (-n[e^]s), n. [OE. harneis, harnes, OF. harneis, F. harnais, harnois; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. harnez old iron, armor, W. haiarn iron, Armor. houarn, Ir. iarann, Gael. iarunn. Cf. {Iron}.] 1. Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
At least we'll die with harness on our back. --Shak.
2. The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
3. The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
{To die in harness}, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.
Federal legislation to harness the expansionist activities of nonprofits is almost certain to come, and some at the state level already has been enacted.
But before they could be pulled to safety, Spinner fell out of his harness, and landed on a ledge 25 feet down.
Ironically, a number of auto safety pamphlets, including two distributed by the NHTSA and one by the American Automobile Association, have advised parents to place the shoulder belt behind a child if the harness crosses the neck or face.
To this end, the Reagan administration should harness all its diplomatic resources.
Recently, an East Coast climbing instructor who forgot to tie the knot on his harness during a lesson fell 30 to 35 feet, crushing the bones in his heels and breaking his back.
If the nation can once again learn to harness its technological eminence for commercial purposes, it may well retain a place at the forefront of industrial nations.
Ms. Yeager, who at 5-foot-4 and 100 pounds is about the right size for harness racing, said recently that the sport enables her to indulge her passion for horses and her fiercely competitive spirit.
A number of auto safety pamphlets, including two distributed by the NHTSA and one by the American Automobile Association, have advised parents to place the shoulder belt behind a child if the harness crosses the neck or face.
Indeed, his recommendation has been to harness the Fed with a rule requiring money growth to be kept at an annual rate of around 3%.
People in rural areas were told that we deserved to have electric lights, and they were going to harness the energy that was necessary to give us electricity so my grandmama didn't have to carry that old coal oil lamp around.
Test subjects _ graduate students paid $10 an hour to be fall guys _ wear a harness connected to a revolving mechanical arm.
The area suffers blistering yearly droughts because of the lack of infrastructure to harness the country's rainfall. Despite the government's current cash crisis, Brazil's social problems do not emanate from a lack of funds.
Papert and fellow MIT scientists primarily will conduct basic research on how to harness the nation's otherwise idle fascination with video games for constructive use.
Chicago burned down and then Chicago built itself up again, at the same time building a myth and helping construct the mind-set that people could tame, harness and eventually triumph over nature itself.
Their hope is to harness the gifted employee's creative strengths to help train younger colleagues.
The sources admitted privately that the attempt to harness those elements had created a monster.
The scientist Victor Frankenstein (Steven Tharp), aided by his friend Henry (Bradley Greenwald) and his little brother William (Andrew Ashcroft), attempt to harness an electrical storm to bring a dead rat to life.
The helicopter pilot turned over the controls to the co-pilot and was lowered by hoist to a nearby ledge, where he gave the woman his helmet and helped her into the hoist harness, Hinde said.
It is the process that powers the sun and stars, and scientists seeking a cheap energy source have long sought to harness it.
Others predict an organizational nightmare in trying to harness into a single system nations at varying stages of economic development and with vastly different environmental laws.
Investment trusts with heavy Japanese holdings are especially tempting to Americans, who harness the value of rising Japanese equities and the robust yen.
A team of marine biologists, veterinarians and the Coast Guard nudged the 45-ton whale with their hands, splashed him with buckets of water, towed him with a harness and used an air compressor to suck mud from below him.
He was wearing the seatbelt-shoulder harness system in his 1982 Pontiac.
A plastic bag containing a small radio, books and clothing was tied to the harness, he said.
Martin Buser of Big Lake arrived at this Eskimo village at 5:49 a.m. with 13 dogs in harness.
To him, disorderliness opens the door for creative diplomacy, especially in harness with western Europe and Japan.
Her husband, who was also wearing a shoulder harness with an unfastened lap belt, survived.
A $400 million investment could help scientists harness antimatter, perhaps leading to faster spacecraft and better ways to treat cancer and detect flaws in complex machines, a Rand Corp. study says.
Dr. Gallo also proposed trying to harness a protein called oncostatin as possible weapon against Kaposi's sarcoma, and taking aim against an enzyme called ribonucleotide reductase as another target for an anti-viral drug against AIDS.
'If Boeing manages to cut its costs by 25 per cent we should be able to reduce Airbus costs by 40 per cent if we can harness efficiently all the assets.' The immediate issue was not transforming Airbus into a public limited company.