Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago
Coronopus); -- called also buck's-horn. Booth. -- Hartshorn shavings,
originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by
planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert.
-- Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia,
obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of
bone; volatile salts. Brande & C. -- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a
solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained
from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal
solutions from other sources have received the same name.
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Hart's"-tongue` (h‰rts"tng`), n. (Bot.) (a) A common British fern
(Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. (b) A West Indian fern, the
Polypodium Phyllitidis of LinnÊus. It is also found in Florida.
Hart"wort` (h‰rt"w˚rt`), n. (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of
Europe (Tordylium maximum).
The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the same order, as
species of Seseli and Bupleurum.
Har"um-scar"um (h‚r"m*sk‚r"m), a. [Cf. hare,v. t., and scare, v. t.]
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.]
They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a
harum-scarum lad.
Thackeray.
Ha*rus`pi*ca"tion (h*rs`p*k"shn), n. See Haruspicy. Tylor.
Ha*rus"pice (h*rs"ps), n. [F., fr. L. haruspex.] A diviner of ancient
Rome. Same as Aruspice.
Ha*rus"pi*cy (-p*s), n. The art or practices of haruspices. See
Aruspicy.
Har"vest (h‰r"vst), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hÊrfest 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.
Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease.
Gen. viii. 22.
At harvest, when corn is ripe.
Tyndale.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as
of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
Joel iii. 13.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
Shak.