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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Harry

Har′ry (-ry̆), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harried (-rĭd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrying.] [OE. harwen, herien, herȝien, AS. hergian to act as an army, to ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war. Cf. Harbor, Herald, Heriot.]

1. To strip; to pillage; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

To harry this beautiful region. W. Irving.

A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush. J. Burroughs.

2. To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. Shak.

Syn. — To ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease; worry; annoy; harass.

Har′ry, v. i. To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.