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 (Zoˆl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States

(Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to

the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoˆl.), an hemipterous insect of the

genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the

head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zoˆl.), 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 (Zoˆl.), 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. (Zoˆl.) See Daddy longlegs.

Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.]

To reap or gather, as any crop.

Har"vest*er (-r), n. 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and

gathering grain; a reaper.

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