Part 5140

<hw>Har"vest</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Harvested</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Harvesting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To reap or gather, as any crop.</def>

<h1>Harvester</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Har"vest*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A harvesting ant.</def>

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

<hw>Har"vest-home"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.</def>

<blockquote>Showed like a stubble land at <b>harvest-home</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The opportunity of gathering treasure.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

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

<hw>Har"vest-ing</hw>, <tt>a. & n.</tt><def>, from <er>Harvest</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def>

<cs><col>Harvesting ant</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.</cd></cs>

<note>&hand; The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are <spn>Aphenogaster structor</spn> and <spn>A. barbara</spn>; that of Texas, called <stype>agricultural ant</stype>, is <spn>Pogonomyrmex barbatus</spn> or <spn>Myrmica molifaciens</spn>; that of Florida is <spn>P. crudelis</spn>. See <cref>Agricultural ant</cref>, under <er>Agricultural</er>.</note>

<h1>Harvestless</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Har"vest*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.</def> "<i>Harvestless</i> autumns."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Harvestman</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Har"vest*man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Harvestmen</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>/def>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A man engaged in harvesting.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Daddy longlegs</er>, 1.</def>

<h1>Harvestry</h1> <Xpage=673>

<hw>Har"vest*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested.</def>

<i>Swinburne.</i>

<h1>Hary</h1> <Xpage=673>