Careful Words

harness (n.)

harness (v.)

  Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

Old Testament: 2 Maccabees xv. 28.

  Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

Old Testament: 1 Kings xx. 11.

Blow, wind! come, wrack!

At least we 'll die with harness on our back.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5.