Har"vest , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Harvesting.]
To reap or gather, as any crop.
Har"vest (här"v&ebreve;st), n. [OE.
harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L.
carpere to pluck, Gr.
karpo`s fruit. Cf.
Carpet.]
1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
Seedtime and
harvest . . . shall
not cease.
Gen. viii. 22. At harvest, when corn is
ripe.
Tyndale.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
Joel iii.
13. To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main
harvest reaps.
Shak. 3. The product or result of any
exertion or labor; gain; reward.
The pope's principal harvest
was in the jubilee.
Fuller. The harvest of a quiet eye.
Wordsworth. Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States
(Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar
fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus
Cicada, often called
locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zoöl.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis),
of a bright
crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called
also harvest louse, and harvest bug. -- Harvest moon, the moon near
the full at
the time of
harvest in England, or about the
autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the
small angle that is made
by the moon's orbit
with the horizon, it rises nearly at the
same hour for several days. -- Harvest mouse
(Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of
wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the
last day of
harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider.
(Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.
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