harvest7 definitions found harvest - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Harvest \Har"vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop. [1913 Webster] Harvest \Har"vest\ (h[aum]r"v[e^]st), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest 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. [1913 Webster] Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. --Gen. viii. 22. [1913 Webster] At harvest, when corn is ripe. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit. [1913 Webster] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. --Joel iii. 13. [1913 Webster] To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. [1913 Webster] The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] The harvest of a quiet eye. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] Harvest fish (Zool.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. Harvest fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] --Tusser. Harvest mite (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs. [1913 Webster] harvest - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) : harvest n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop, harvest] 2: the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love" 3: the gathering of a ripened crop [syn: harvest, harvesting, harvest home] 4: the season for gathering crops [syn: harvest, harvest time ] v 1: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: reap, harvest, glean] 2: remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals" harvest - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) : Harvest <tool, networking> A highly scalable, customisable system for discovering resources on the Internet. Version: 1.3. (http://tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/). (1999-01-16) harvest - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary : Harvest the season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commenced (Lev. 23:9-14; 2 Sam. 21:9, 10; Ruth 2:23). It began with the feast of Passover and ended with Pentecost, thus lasting for seven weeks (Ex. 23:16). The harvest was a season of joy (Ps. 126:1-6; Isa. 9:3). This word is used figuratively Matt. 9:37; 13:30; Luke 10:2; John 4:35. (See AGRICULTURE.) harvest - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) : Harvest, AL (CDP, FIPS 33472) Location: 34.85562 N, 86.74989 W Population (1990): 1922 (717 housing units) Area: 32.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35749 harvest - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 127 Moby Thesaurus words for "harvest": accumulate, acquire, aftermath, amass, assemble, autumn, bag, be seized of, bearing, bin, bring in, bumper crop, by-product, cache, capture, carve, catch, chisel, collect, come by, come in for, come into, consequence, consequent, contract, convert, corollary, corral, crop, crop herbs, cropping, cultivate, cut, cutting, derivation, derivative, derive, development, dig, distillate, drag down, draw, earn, effect, enter into possession, event, eventuality, eventuation, extract, fall, fruit, gain, garner, garnering, gather, gather in, gathering, get, glean, gleaning, grabble, grow, harvest home, harvest time, harvesting, hay, hide, hoard, ingathering, issue, legacy, logical outcome, machine, make, mill, mine, mow, net, nut, nutting, obtain, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, output, pick, pluck, precipitate, proceeds, process, procure, produce, product, production, pull down, pump, raise, reap, reap and carry, reaping, rear, receive, refine, result, resultant, sack, score, second crop, secure, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, smelt, squirrel, stash, store up, storing, stow away, take, take in, throughput, upshot, vintage, win, yield |