\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.