Locust \Lo"cust\, n. [L. locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf. Lobster.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acridid[ae], allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Praying \Pray"ing\, a. & n. from Pray, v.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Harvest \Har"vest\, n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. ? 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 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)