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

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

See Haruspicy. Tylor.

A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.

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.

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.

A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a…

To draw; to drag; to carry off by vio [Obs.] Chaucer.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.

Hazard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Haze, v. t.

That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.