Chapter Harpings to Hash of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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 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.

Harvest
(Har"vest), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop.

Harvester
(Har"vest*er) n.

1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

2. (Zoöl.) A harvesting ant.

Harvest-home
(Har"vest-home") n.

1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.

Showed like a stubble land at harvest- home.

Shak.

2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.

3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak.

Harvesting
(Har"vest*ing), a. & n., from Harvest, v. t.

Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is P. crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural.

Harvestless
(Har"vest*less), a. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.

Harvestman
(Har"vest*man) n.; pl. Harvestmen

1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.

2. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs, 1.