Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HARTS'TONGUE, n. [See Tongue.]

A plant, a species of Asplonium.

HART'WORT, n.

The name of certain plants of the genera Seseli, Tordylium, and Buplenrum.

HAR'US-PICE, n. [L. haruspex, from specio, to view.]

In Roman history, a person who pretended to fortell future events by inspecting the entrails of beasts sacrificed, or watching the circumstances attending their slaughter, or their manner of burning and the ascent of the smoke. Encyc. Adam.

HAR'US-PI-CY, n.

Divination by the inspection of victims.

HAR'VEST, n. [Sax. hærfest, harfest, harvest, autumn; G. herbst; D. herfst. This word signifies autumn, and primarily had no reference to the collection of the fruits of the earth; but in German, herbstzeit is harvest-time. It seems to be formed from the G. herbe, harsh, keen, tart, acerb, L. acerbus, and primarily it refers to the cold, chilly weather in autumn in the north of Europe. This being the time when crops are collected in northern climates, the word came to signify harvest.]

1. The season of reaping and gathering in corn or other crops. It especially refers to the time of collecting corn or grain, which is the chief food of men, as wheat and rye. In Egypt and Syria, the wheat harvest is in April and May; in the south of Europe and of the United States, in June; in the northern states of America, in July; and in the north of Europe, in August and September. In the United States, the harvest of maiz is mostly in October.
2. The ripe corn or grain collected and secured in barns or stacks. The harvest this year is abundant.
3. The product of labor; fruit or fruits. Let us the harvest of our labor eat. Dryden.
4. Fruit or fruits; effects; consequences. He that sows iniquity will reap a harvest of woe.
5. In Scripture, harvest signifies figuratively the proper season for business. He that sleepeth in harvest, is a son that causeth shame. Prov. x. Also, a people whose sins have ripened them for judgment. Joel iii. Also, the end of the world. Matth. xiii. Also, a seasonable time for instructing men in the Gospel. Matth. ix.

HAR'VEST, v.t.

To reap or gather ripe corn and other fruits for the use of man and beast.

HAR'VEST-ED, pp.

Reaped and collected, as ripe corn and fruits.

HAR'VEST-ER, n.

A reaper; a laborer in gathering grain.

HAR'VEST-FLY, n.

A large four-winged insect of the Cicada kind, common in Italy. Encyc.

HAR'VEST-HOME, n.

1. The time of harvest. Dryden.
2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the gathering of corn, or the feast itself. Dryden.
3. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak.

HAR'VEST-ING, n.

Operation of reaping and collecting, as ripe grain.

HAR'VEST-ING, ppr.

Reaping and collecting, as ripe corn and other fruits.

HAR'VEST-LORD, n.

The head-reaper at the harvest. Tusser.

HAR'VEST-MAN, n.

A laborer in harvest.

HAR'VEST-MOON, n.

The moon near its opposition to the sun, when, by means of the small angle of the ecliptic with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days.

HAR'VEST-QUEEN, n.

An image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest.

HASH, n.

Minced meat, or a dish of meat and vegetables chopped into small pieces and mixed.

HASH, v.t. [Fr. hacher; Arm. haicha; Eng. to hack. See Hack.]

To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. Garth.

HASK, n.

A case made of rushes or flags. [Not used.] Spenser.

HAS'LET, n. [See HARSLET.]

HASP, n. [Sax. hæps; G. haspe, a hinge; Dan. hasp; Sw. haspe. We probably have the word from the Danes.]

1. A clasp that passes over a staple to be fastened by a padlock. Mortimer.
2. A spindle to wind thread or silk on. [Local.]

HASP, v.t.

To shut or fasten with a hasp. Garth.

HAS'SOC, n. [W. hesor. Qu. from hêsg, sedge, rushes. It signifies in Scottish, a besom, any thing bushy, and a turf of peat moss used as a seat. The sense is therefore the same as that of mat, a collection or mass.]

A thick mat or bass on which persons kneel in church. Addison. And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorced, Cowper.

HAST, v. [the second person singular of have, I have, thou hast, contracted from havest. It is used only in the solemn style.]

HAS'TATE, or HAS'TA-TED, a. [L. hastatus, from hasta, a spear.]

In botany, spear-shaped; resembling the head of a halberd; triangular, hollowed at the base and on the sides, with the angles spreading; as, a hastate leaf. Martyn. Lee.