Harvest

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: har=vest

CIDE DICTIONARY

Harvest, n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo`s fruit. Cf. Carpet.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "At harvest, when corn is ripe."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "To glean the broken ears after the man
  That the main harvest reaps."  [1913 Webster]
•  The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.  [1913 Webster]

  "The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee."  [1913 Webster]

  "The harvest of a quiet eye."  [1913 Webster]

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 (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 (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, v. t. 

 To reap or gather, as any crop.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Harvest, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the process of gathering in crops etc. b the season when this takes place.
2 the season's yield or crop.
3 the product or result of any action.
--v.tr.
1 gather as a harvest, reap.
2 experience (consequences).

Idiom

harvest festival a thanksgiving festival in church for the harvest. harvest home the close of harvesting or the festival to mark this. harvest mite any arachnid larvae of the genus Trombicula, a chigger. harvest moon the full moon nearest to the autumn equinox (22 or
23 Sept.). harvest mouse a small rodent, Micromys minutus, that nests in the stalks of growing grain.

Derivative

harvestable adj.

Etymology

OE h{aelig}rfest f. Gmc

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Harvest

Good

N good, benefit, advantage, improvement, greatest good, supreme good, interest, service, behoof, behalf, weal, main chance, summum bonum, common weal, consummation devoutly to be wished, gain, boot, profit, harvest, boon, good turn, blessing, world of good, piece of good luck, piece of good fortune, nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove, good fortune, happiness, goodness, utility, remedy, pleasure giving, commendable, useful, good, beneficial, well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis, all for the best, to one's advantage, in one's favor, in one's interest, so far so good, magnum bonum.

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

VB store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store Adj, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve.

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Effect

N effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.