Definition of Harvist
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.
Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n.
Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The yield of harvesting (usually a food crop.)
- The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
- to bring in; reap; glean
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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