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In the manner of a guest.

A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

s now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]

, 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.

The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak.

One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

, from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.

A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.

The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.

Anæsthesia upon one side of the body.

Command; precept; injunction. [Archaic] See Behest. "At thy hest." Shak. Let him that yields obey the victor's hest. Fairfax. Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full. Tennyson.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood.

The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.

High-priesthood.

Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

The home or seat of a family; place of origin. We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. W. Tooke.

the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]