·vt Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
II. Harness ·vt To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
III. Harness ·vt To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to Array.
IV. Harness ·noun The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, ·etc.; gear; tackling.
V. Harness ·noun Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
VI. Harness ·noun 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.