The future of the list -- nanny time?

[Sojourner]

At 07:37 AM 7/24/97 PDT, Thomas Vieth wrote:
>What, pray, is a harridan?
>
>Thomas Vieth
>Down with Triolahidi
>Long live Hollerodullyo
>

Har"ri*dan (?), n. [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.] A worn-out
strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag. 

     Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty
creature I had been used to see.
     
	--De Quincey.