Crossword clues for harnessed
harnessed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harness \Har"ness\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harnessed (-n[e^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Harnessing.] [OE. harneisen; cf. F. harnacher, OF. harneschier.]
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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. Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
--Dr. H. More.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: harness)
WordNet
adj. brought under control and put to use; "electricity from the harnessed Colorado River"; "the harnessed power of the atom"
Usage examples of "harnessed".
As many as eight and ten slaves were harnessed to the large coaches, and here and there a small chariot rolled by pulled only by a couple of pairs, and there were even small market carts without drivers being pulled by lone slaves, the Masters on foot beside them.
Everywhere these people looked they saw some delectable bit of naked flesh, punished or positioned or harnessed for their pleasure.
Mistress Lockley bound me, punished me, harnessed me, and took me through a dozen forced tasks before she expected anything of my will.
I had already been shown by the early barefoot run through the village that one could take pride in being harnessed like that, instead of the other way.
You'll be harnessed to pull a good-sized basket of fruit back to my town house, and I want to be done with all that so that by high noon when the crowd is at its daytime thickest you can be punished on the Public Turntable.
That done, she harnessed on a life-support tank and donned her headgear and the water-aids, then punched the destruct on her ship's instrumentation and threw open the escape hatch.
And once he had the fat and jolly gentleman seated in his sleigh, whip in hand, ready to urge his harnessed team, Jeremy was good and ready to make them proper.
We'll sedate you, and you can be harnessed safely in a radiant tub in the infirmary, which has special shielding.
Two antlered, rough-coated beasts were harnessed to it, stamping their cloven hooves in the snow.
He saw her harnessed into the radiant fluid bath before he stormed off.
But they could be harnessed, and without them the retrieval of the wagons would have been impossible.
Never once wondered what the fae might do for you, if you harnessed it to fend off death?
His sheath was no longer strapped to his back but harnessed to the side of his belt: he fervently hoped he would remember it was there when the time came to draw it.
The faith of thousands had been harnessed here, not only to worship the One God (or perhaps to create Him, some theologians might argue,) but to turn each city into a fortress, impregnable to demonic assault.
How it settled down soon after and then flowed like water over the land, in currents that could be mapped and harnessed, from the strongest tide down to the tiniest ripple.