H — Harpings to Hash (Part 4 of 6)

Harten
(Hart"en) v. t. To hearten; to encourage; to incite. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hartford
(Hart"ford) n. The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

Hart's clover
(Hart's" clo`ver) (Bot.) Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.

Hart's-ear
(Hart's"-ear`) n. (Bot.) An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.

Hartshorn
(Harts"horn`) n.

1. The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

2. Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.

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.

Hart's-tongue
(Hart's"-tongue`) n. (Bot.) (a) A common British fern rare in America. (b) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnæus. It is also found in Florida.

Hartwort
(Hart"wort`) n. (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe

The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the same order, as species of Seseli and Bupleurum.

Harum-scarum
(Har"um-scar"um) 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.

Haruspication
(Ha*rus`pi*ca"tion) n. See Haruspicy. Tylor.

Haruspice
(Ha*rus"pice) n. [F., fr. L. haruspex.] A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

Haruspicy
(Ha*rus"pi*cy) n. The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.

Harvest
(Har"vest) n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest 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.

At harvest, when corn is ripe.

2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain or fruit.

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.

To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps.