Harp"er (?), n. [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.
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