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<h1>Hart-tongue</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Hart"-tongue`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A common British fern (<spn>Scolopendrium vulgare</spn>), rare in America.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A West Indian fern, the <spn>Polypodium Phyllitidis</spn> of Linn\'91us. It is also found in Florida.</def>

<h1>Hartwort</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Hart"wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (<spn>Tordylium maximum</spn>).</def>

<note>&hand; The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the same order, as species of <spn>Seseli</spn> and <spn>Bupleurum</spn>.</note>

<h1>Harum-scarum</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Har"um-scar"um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <ets>hare</ets>,<tt>v. t.</tt>, and <ets>scare</ets>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a <b>harum-scarum</b> lad. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Haruspication</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Ha*rus`pi*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Haruspicy</er>.</def>

<i>Tylor.</i>

<h1>Haruspice</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Ha*rus"pice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>haruspex</ets>.]</ety> <def>A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as <er>Aruspice</er>.</def>

<h1>Haruspicy</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Ha*rus"pi*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The art or practices of haruspices. See <er>Aruspicy</er>.</def>

<h1>Harvest</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Har"vest</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>harvest</ets>, <ets>hervest</ets>, AS. <ets>h\'91rfest</ets> autumn; akin to LG. <ets>harfst</ets>, D. <ets>herfst</ets>, OHG. <ets>herbist</ets>, G. <ets>herbst</ets>, and prob. to L. <ets>carpere</ets> to pluck, Gr. <?/ fruit. Cf. <er>Carpet</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Seedtime and <b>harvest</b> . . . shall not cease. <i>Gen viii. 22.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>At <b>harvest</b>, when corn is ripe. <i>Tyndale.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath<?/<?/ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.</def>

<blockquote>Put ye in the sickle, for the <b>harvest</b> is ripe. <i>Joel iii. 13.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To glean the broken ears after the man That the main <b>harvest</b> reaps. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.</def>

<blockquote>The pope's principal <b>harvest</b> was in the jubilee. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>harvest</b> of a quiet eye. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Harvest fish</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a marine fish of the Southern United States (<spn>Stromateus alepidotus</spn>); -- called <altname>whiting</altname> in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.</cd> -- <col>Harvest fly</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an hemipterous insect of the genus <spn>Cicada</spn>, often called <altname>locust</altname>. See <er>Cicada</er>.</cd> -- <col>Harvest lord</col>, <cd>the head reaper at a harvest. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Tusser</i>.</cd> -- <col>Harvest mite</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a minute European mite (<spn>Leptus autumnalis</spn>), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also <altname>harvest louse</altname>, and <altname>harvest bug</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Harvest moon</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Harvest mouse</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a very small European field mouse (<spn>Mus minutus</spn>). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.</cd> -- <col>Harvest queen</col>, <cd>an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. <i>Milton</i>.</cd> -- <col>Harvest spider</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Daddy longlegs</er>.</cd></cs>

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