harvest 
No more shall . . . Peace 
Pipe on her pastoral hillock a languid note, 
And watch her han-esl ripen. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxviii. 
Hence 4. The product of any labor, or the 
result of any course of action ; gain ; result ; 
effect; consequence. 
What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful 
joysY Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
5. The act or process of harvesting. 
Look on the fields ; for they are white already to har- 
vest, John iv. 35. 
The peasants urge their harvest, ply the fork. 
Cwvper, Table Talk, 1. 214. 
To owe one a day In harvest, to owe a good deed 
when it shall be most needed, in return for a favor re- 
ceived. 
Heark thee, man, I owe thee a day inharst; . . . I'll pay 
. up your thousan pund Scots. Scott, Rob Roy, xxih. 
harvest (har'vest), v. t. [< ME. hervesten = 
OD. herfsten = G. herbnten, draw near autumn, 
dial, harvest, = Icel. haustti, draw near autumn, 
= Sw. ho'sta = Dan. hosts, harvest ; from the 
noun.] To reap or gather, as corn and other 
crops, for the use of man and beast : often used 
figuratively. 
Men hervesten the corn twyes a geer. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 300. 
I have seen a stock of reeds harvested and stacked, worth 
two or three hundred pounds. Pennant, Tour in Scotland. 
harvest-apple (har'vest-ap"l), . A small early 
variety of apple ripening in August. 
harvest-bells (har'vest-belz), n. A beauti- 
ful gentian, Gentiana Pneumonanthe, found in 
nearly all parts of Europe, but rare in England. 
It is a perennial herb nearly a foot high, with linear leaves, 
and bright-blue corolla an inch and a half long, striate 
with ftuegreenish lines. It blooms in harvest-time, whence 
the name. 
harvest-bug (har' vest-bug), n. 1. Same as 
harvest-tick. 
This animal (which we call a harvest buff) is very minute, 
. . . of a bright scarlet colour, and of the genus of Acarus. 
Gilbert White, Nat. Hist, of Selborne, xxxiv. 
2. Same as harvest-fly. [New Eng.] 
harvest-doll (har'vest-dol), n. Same as har- 
vest-queen. 
harvester (har'ves-ter), re. 1. One who har- 
vests. 
Would she were mine, and I to-day, 
Like her, a harvester of hay. 
WhMier, Maud Muller. 
2. A machine for gathering field-crops, such 
as grain, beans, flax, potatoes, etc.; specifically, 
a reaping-machine. Any machine for gathering field- 
crops is called a harvester, except the grass cutting ma- 
chines, which are called mowers or molting -machines ; 
any grain-harvesting machine also, except the heading- 
machine, is called a reaper. See mower and reaper. 
3. A harvest-spider or harvestman. 
harvest-feast (har'vest -fest), . A feast made 
at the ingathering of the harvest, 
harvest-field (hiir'vest-feld), re. A field from 
which a harvest is gathered. 
The country people bring home from the harvest field 
... a figure made with corn, round which the men and 
the women were promiscuously singing, and preceded by 
a piper or a drum. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 468. 
My brother James is in the har nest- field. 
Tennyson, The Brook. 
harvest-fish (har' vest-fish), n. 1. The butter- 
fish, dollar-fish, or laf ayette, Stromateus triacan- 
thus. [New Jersey, U. S.] 2. Another species 
of Stromateidai, Stromateus paru, distinguished 
by the production of the anterior dorsal and 
anal rays and the suborbicular body. It visits 
the North American coast in the autumn, at 
harvest-time. 
harvest-fly (har'yest-fli), TO. A homopterous 
insect of the family Cicadidce; a lyerman. ci- 
cada tibicen is known as the dog-day harvest-Jly in the 
United States ; it is a near relative of the seventeen-year 
cicada, and, like it, is often called locust. Sometimes 
called harvest-bug. 
harvest-goose (har' vest-gos), n. Same as stub- 
ble-goose. 
harvest-home (har' vest-horn' ), n. 1 . The time 
of gathering the harvest ; the bringing home of 
the harvest; hence, any opportunity for mak- 
ing advantage or gain. 
And his chin, new reap'd, 
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., 1. 3. 
2. A festival held by the English peasantry in 
August in honor of the homing of the harvest. 
It was formerly observed by farm-laborers, servants, and 
the whole rural community, with universal merrymak- 
ing, feasting, songs and dances, and processions of oxen 
and horses with decorated carts and implements of hus- 
bandry. At present little remains of this custom but a 
supper. 
As we were returning to our inn [in or near Windsor), 
we happened to meet some country people celebrating 
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their harvest -home : their last load of corn they crown with 
flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which 
perhaps they signify Ceres; this they keep moving about, 
while the men and women, and men and maid servants, 
riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as 
they can till they arrive at the barn. 
Hentzner (end of 16th century), quoted in Strutt's Sports 
[and Pastimes, p. 467. 
3. The song sung at this festival. 
Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come 
And, to the pipe, sing harvest-home. Herrick. 
We have ploughed, we have sowed, 
We have reaped, we have mowed, 
We have brought home every load, 
Hip, hip, hip, Harvest home ! 
Hone's Every-Day Book, II. 1164. 
harvesting-machine (har'ves-ting-ma-sheu"), 
n. A harvester. See harvester, 2. 
harvest-lady (har'vest-la"di), w. The second 
reaper in a row. [Prov. Eng.] 
harvestless (hiir'vest-les), a. Without harvest. 
These judgments on the land 
Harvestless autumns, horrible agues, plague. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, v. 1. 
harvest-lord (har 'vest -lord), n. The head 
reaper at the harvest, or the first reaper in a row. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
harvest-louse (har'vest-lous), re. Same as har- 
vest-tick. 
harvestman (har'vest-man), n.; pi. harvestmen 
(-men). 1 . A laborer in harvest. 
Like to a harvest-man, that's task'd to mow 
Or all, or lose his hire. Shak., Cor., i. 3. 
2. A harvester, shepherd-spider, gray-bear, or 
daddy-long-legs ; an arachnidan, such as those 
of the genus Phalangium, having a very small 
globose body with long slim legs. Also harvest- 
spider. 
harvest-mite (har'vest-mit), n. Same as har- 
vest-tick; especially, a mite of the genus Trom- 
bidium or family Trombidiidcc. 
harvest-month (har'vest-munth), n. [< ME. 
hervestmoneth, < AS. hcerfestm6nath(= D. herfst- 
maand, September, = OHG. herbistmdnoth, 
MHG. herbestmdnot, autumnal month, der erste 
herbistmdnoth, the first harvest-month, Septem- 
ber, G. herbstmonat = Dan. hostmaaned = Sw. 
hostm&nad), September, < hcerfest, autumn, + 
monath, month.] The month when the prin- 
cipal harvests are gathered; specifically, in 
Great Britain, the month of September. 
harvest-moon (har'vest-mon), n. The full moon 
nearest to the autumnal equinox. At that season 
the moon, when nearly full, rises for several consecutive 
nights at about the same hour, so that there is an unusual 
proportion of moonlight evenings. The phenomenon is 
more striking in higher latitudes than in the United States 
and disappears entirely in the tropics. It is most marked 
when the ascending node of the moon's orbit is at or near 
the vernal equinox, as it will be in 1894. The phenomenon 
is due to the fact that at the time of the autumnal equinox 
the full moon (necessarily opposite to the sun) is in that 
part of its orbit which makes the least possible angle with 
the eastern horizon at the point where the moon rises. 
The full moon which happens on or nearest to the 21st 
of September is called the harvest-moon. 
Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy, 428 b. 
Preserving distinct statements of certain color facts 
as that the harvest-moon at rising was of such and such a 
red. Ruakin, Elements of Drawing, iii. 
harvest-mouse (har'vest-mous), re. A very 
small muriue rodent or mouse, Mus minutus, 
abundant in Europe, nesting in grain, and there- 
hash 
the last day of harvest. Also called kern-baby 
and hancst-iloll. 
harvestry (har'vest-ri), n. [< harvest + -ry.] 
The act or industry of harvesting ; also, that 
which is harvested. Swinburne. 
harvest-spider (hiir'vest-spi"der), n. Same as 
harrcstman, 2. 
harvest-tick (har'vest-tik), . One of several 
different mites or acarids which are abundant 
and troublesome late in the summer and in au- 
tumn. They attach themselves like ticks to the skin, be- 
come gorged with blood, and occasion much inconve- 
nience. They are also called harvest-lice harvest-mites, 
harvest-bugs, and red lice, and were formerly all placed 
in a spurious genus Leptus, which is composed of the 
Harvest-mouse (Mus minutus or messorius') and its Nest. 
fore specially observable in harvest-time. It is 
one of the very smallest of mice, being about 2J 
inches in length, with a tail nearly as long, 
harvest-queen (har'vest-kwen), re. An image 
representing Ceres, formerly carried about on 
Harvest-ticks, much magnified. 
Leptus" irritant. Trombidium americanutn. 
six legged immature forms of various mites, mainly har- 
vest-mites or trombldiids, but also includes certain spin- 
ning-mites or tetranychids. Thus, in England, the com- 
mon harvest-bug is Tetranychus (formerly "Leptus") au- 
tumnalis. In the United States the same name is given 
to the six -legged or Leptus stage of a mite called "Leptus" 
irritans, the adult of which is unknown, but is probably a 
species of Tetranychus; and also to a true harvest-mite 
with eight legs, Trombidium americanum. See Leptus, 
Trombidium. 
Harvey's vine. See vine. 
harwe', . A Middle English form of harrow^. 
harwe' 2 t, v- t. A Middle English form of har- 
row 2 . 
has 1 (haz). The third person singular present 
indicative of have. 
has'-'t, a. An early Middle English form of 
hoarse. 
hasardt, An obsolete spelling of hazard. 
hasardourt, TO. An obsolete spelling of hazarder. 
hasardriet, n. Same as hazardry. 
has-been (naz'ben or -bin), n. A person, thing, 
belief, etc., that belongs exclusively to the past ; 
something out of date or past use. 
There are so many relics of ancient superstition linger- 
ing in the land, and worshipped under the deluding and 
endearing names of "Gude auld has-beens." 
Blackwood'i Mag. 
hase 1 !, An obsolete spelling of haze 1 . 
hase 2 t, . t. An obsolete spelling of haze 2 . 
hasel, re. See hazel. 
hash 1 (hash),fl. t. [Ult. < F.hacher, chop, mince; 
but the E. verb is duo rather to the noun hash, 
which is from a deriv. of the F. verb; of earlier 
introduction, from the same F. verb, is E. 
hatch 3 . See hatch 3 and hack 1 , which are dou- 
blets of /ios/i 1 .] To chop; especially, to chop 
into small pieces ; mince ; hence, to mangle. 
There was such hashing, and broad swords a-clashing, 
Brave Forfar himsel got a claw. 
Battle of Sheriff-Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 159). 
One slip . . . would topple the stumbler and his bur- 
den down to be hashed against jutting points, and tossed, 
fragmentary food for fishes, in the lucid pool below. 
T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle, ix. 
hash 1 (hash), n. [Abbr. of older hachey or hachee, 
<OF. hachis, mincedmeat (cf. haggis), < hacher, 
hack, shred, slice, hew, chop, cut in pieces, < 
G. hacken = E. hack 1 : see hack 1 and hatch 3 .} 
1 . That which is hashed or chopped; especially, 
mincedmeat. 2. Specifically, a dish of meat 
and potatoes, previously cooked, chopped up 
together and cooked again. 
The cook should be reminded that, if the meat In a hash 
or mince be allowed toJboil, it will immediately be hard. 
Miss Acton, Modern Cookery. 
Hence 3. Any mixture and second prepara- 
tion of old material; a repetition; a reexhibi- 
tion. 
I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them 
over again in a first session. //. Walpole. 
Old pieces are revived, and scarcely any new ones ad- 
mitted ; the public are again obliged to ruminate over 
those hashes of absurdity which were disgusting to our 
ancestors even in an age of ignorance. 
Ooldsmith, Polite Learning. 
4. A sloven ; a country clown ; a stupid or silly 
fellow. [Scotch.] 
A set o' dull, conceited hashes, 
Confuse their brains in college classes ! 
They gang in stirks, and come out asses. 
Burns, first Epistle to Lapraik. 
