harvest : Idioms & Phrases

• noun any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
  American harvest mouse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.

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• noun its distinctive song is heard during July and August
  dog-day cicada.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada.

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• noun the gathering of a ripened crop
  harvest; harvesting.
  

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• the head reaper at a harvest. Obs. Tusser.

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• noun larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
  jigger; chigger; redbug.
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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.

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• noun the full moon nearest the September equinox
  

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• 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.

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• noun any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
  American harvest mouse.
  
• noun small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
  Micromyx minutus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.

Webster 1913

• an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.

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• noun the season for gathering crops
  harvest.
  

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Har"vest-home" noun

Definitions

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.

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Har"vest-ing adjective & noun

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1. , from Harvest, v. t. ✍ 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.

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• noun erect perennial Old World herb of dry grassy habitats
  Agrimonia eupatoria.
  

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• the gathering of honey from hives, or the honey which is gathered. Dryden.

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• the last part of the harvest.

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