Note: These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and
the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and
when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the
United States the harvest flies are improperly called
locusts. See {Cicada}.
{Locust beetle} (Zo["o]l.), a longicorn beetle ({Cyllene
robini[ae]}), which, in the larval state, bores holes in
the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black,
barred with yellow. Called also {locust borer}.
{Locust bird} (Zo["o]l.) the rose-colored starling or pastor
of India. See {Pastor}.
{Locust hunter} (Zo["o]l.), an African bird; the beefeater.
2. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) The locust tree. See {Locust
Tree} (definition, note, and phrases).
{Locust bean} (Bot.), a commercial name for the sweet pod of
the carob tree.
{Praying insect}, {locust}, or mantis (Zo["o]l.), a mantis,
especially {Mantis religiosa}. See {Mantis}.
{Praying machine}, or {Praying wheel}, a wheel on which
prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the
wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have
the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on
the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.
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 gath??ed; 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.
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} (Zo["o]l.), a marine fish of the Southern
United States ({Stromateus alepidotus}); -- called
{whiting} in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.
{Harvest fly} (Zo["o]l.), an hemipterous insect of the genus
{Cicada}, often called {locust}. See {Cicada}.
{Harvest lord}, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.]
--Tusser.
{Harvest mite} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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 pepresenting Ceres, formerly
carried about on the last day of harvest. --Milton.
{Harvest spider}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Daddy longlegs}.