Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 44
Locality (n.) (Phren.) 地區；場所，現場 [C]；方位 [U] The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Locality (n.) A surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality}, {neighborhood}, {neighbourhood}, {neck of the woods}].
Locality, () In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory.
Locality, () In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different processor. This overhead increases with the number of communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of references which are to local memory. (1995-02-28)
Locality (n.), Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life rent of terce. 1 Bell's Com. 55. See Jointure.
Localisation (n.) 【英】= Localization.
localisation (n.) Same as localization. [Chiefly Brit.]
Syn: location, locating, fix.
Localisation (n.) (Physiology) The principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body [syn: localization of function, localisation of function, localization principle, localisation principle, localization, localisation].
Localisation (n.) A determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix].
Localisation (l10n) Localised (l10n) Adapting a product to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market "{locale".
Localisation includes the translation of the user interface, on-line help and documentation, and ensuring the images and concepts are culturally appropriate and sensitive. There may be subtle cross-cultural considerations, e.g. do the icons make sense in other parts of the world?
Internationalisation, Is the process that occurs during application development that makes localisation easier by separating the details that differ between locales from the rest of the program that stays the same. If internationalisation is thorough, localisation will require no programming.
The abbreviation l10n means "L - 10 letters - N". (1999-06-09)
Localization (n.) 局部化；地方化 Act of localizing, or state of being localized.
Cerebral localization (Physiol.), The localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.
Localization (n.) A determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix].
Localization (n.) (Physiology) The principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body [syn: localization of function, localisation of function, localization principle, localisation principle, localization, localisation].
Localized (imp. & p. p.) of Localize.
Localizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Localize.
Localize (v. t.) 使局部化；使具地方色彩 To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. -- H. Spencer. -- Wordsworth.
Localize (v.) Identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection" [syn: place, localize, localise].
Localize (v.) Concentrate on a particular place or spot; "The infection has localized in the left eye" [syn: localize, localise, focalize, focalise].
Localize (v.) Restrict something to a particular area [syn: localize, localise].
Localize (v.) Locate; "The film is set in Africa" [syn: set, localize, localise, place].
Locally (adv.) With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
Locate (v. i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]
Located (imp. & p. p.) of Locate.
Locating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Locate.
Locate (v. t.) 確定……的地點（或範圍）；把……設置在 [O] To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. -- B. F. Westcott.
Locate (v. t.) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. -- H. Spencer.
Locate (v. t.) To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system.
Locate (v.) (v. i.) 【美】【口】定居 [Q] Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" [syn: locate, turn up].
Locate (v.) Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate, locate].
Locate (v.) Assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site].
Locate (v.) Take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle, locate].
Location (n.) 位置；場所，所在地 [C]；位置（或場所）的選定；地點的發現 [U] The act or process of locating.
Location (n.) Situation; place; locality. -- Locke.
Location (n.) That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
Location (n.) (Law) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent.
Location (n.) (Law) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
Location (n.) (Law) (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
Location (n.) A point or extent in space.
Location (n.) The act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement].
Location (n.) A determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix].
Location (n.) A workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made; "they shot the film on location in Nevada" [ant: studio] memory location.
Location () A byte, word or other small unit of storage space in a computer's main memory that is identified by its starting address (and size). (1999-04-19)
Location, contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 1 Bell's Com. B. 2, pt. 3, c. 2, s. 4, art. 2, Sec. 1, page 255. Vide Bailment; Hire.
Location (), estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor general's office. Act June 25, 1781, Sec. 2, 2 Sm. Laws, 7.
Locative (a.) (Gram.) 【文】表示位置的 Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n. The locative case.
Locative (n.) 【文】位置格 The locative case.
Locative (n.) The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb [syn: locative role, locative].
Locator (n.) 表示位置之物；土地境界設定者；電波探測器 One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [U.S.]
Locator (n.) A person who fixes the boundaries of land claims [syn: locator, locater].
Locator (), Civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2d. To guaranty to the hirer the free enjoyment of it. 3d. To keep the thing hired in good order in such manner that the hirer may enjoy it. 4th. To warrant that the thing hired has not such defects as to destroy its use. Poth. Du. Contr. de Louage, n. 53.
Locellate (a.) (Bot.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.
Locellate (a.) (Botany) Split into secondary cells.
Loch (n.) 【蘇格蘭】湖；海灣 A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]
Loch (n.) (Med.) 舐膏劑 A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture. Lochaber ax
Loch (n.) A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
Loch (n.) Scottish word for a lake.
Lochaber ax () Alt. of Lochaber axe.
Lochaber axe (n.) 洛卡柏斧 A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
Lochaber ax (n.) A battle-ax formerly used by Scottish Highlanders.
Lochage (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) An officer who commanded a company; a captain. -- Mitford.
Lochan (n.) A small lake; a pond. [Scot.]
A pond or lochan rather than a lake. -- H. Miller.
Loche (n.) (Zool.) See Loach.
Lochia (n. pl.) (Med.) 【醫】惡露，產褥排泄物 The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
Lochia (n.) Substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth.
Lochial (a.) 惡露的；產褥排泄的 Of or pertaining to the lochia.
Compare: Safety
Safety (n.) 安全，平安 [U]；安全設施 [C] The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Up led by thee, Into the heaven I have presumed, An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down, Return me to my native element. -- Milton.
Safety (n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off, And credit thy repentance! -- Beau. & Fl.
Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return. -- Shak.
Safety (n.) (Amer. Football) The act or result of a ball-carrier on the offensive team being tackled behind his own goal line, or the downing of a ball behind the offensive team's own goal line when it had been carried or propelled behind that goal line by a player on the offensive tream; such a play causes a score of two points to be awarded to the defensive team; -- it is distinguished from touchback, when the ball is downed behind the goal after being propelled there or last touched by a player of the defending team. See Touchdown. Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Safety (n.) Short for Safety bicycle. [archaic]
Safety (n.) A switch on a firearm that locks the trigger and prevents the firearm from being discharged unintentionally; -- also called safety catch, safety lock, or lock. [archaic]
Lock (n.) [C] 一綹頭髮 A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. -- Shak.
Lock (n.) 鎖 [C] Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
Lock (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. -- De Quincey.
Lock (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. -- Dryden.
Lock (n.) （運河等的）船閘，水閘 [C] The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
Lock (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
Lock (n.) 【軍】槍機 [C] That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
Lock (n.) A grapple in wrestling. -- Milton.
Detector lock, A lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with.
Lock bay (Canals), The body of water in a lock chamber.
Lock chamber, The inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock.
Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check.
Lock plate, A plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached.
Lock rail (Arch.), In ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock.
Lock rand (Masonry), A range of bond stone. -- Knight.
Mortise lock, A door lock inserted in a mortise.
Rim lock, A lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock.
Locked (imp. & p. p.) of Lock.
Locking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lock.
Lock (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
Lock (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
Lock (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. " Lock hand in hand." -- Shak.
Lock (v. t.) (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
Lock (v. t.) (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lock (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
When it locked none might through it pass. -- Spenser.
To lock into, To fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. -- Boyle.
Lock (n.) A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed.
Lock (n.) A strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl].
Lock (n.) A mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun.
Lock (n.) Enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it [syn: lock, lock chamber].
Lock (n.) A restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key [syn: lock, ignition lock].
Lock (n.) Any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured.
Lock (v.) Fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" [ant: unlock].
Lock (v.) Keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw].
Lock (v.) Become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" [ant: unlock].
Lock (v.) Hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: lock, interlock, interlace].
Lock (v.) Become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" [syn: interlock, lock].
Lock (v.) Hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit".
Lock (v.) Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" [syn: lock
in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up].
Lock (v.) Pass by means through a lock in a waterway.
Lock (v.) Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels.
Lock () The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judg. 3:24). (See KEY.)
Lock of hair (Judg. 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Num. 6:5, etc.).
Lockage (n.) 水閘的構築及使用；通過水閘 Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
Lockage (n.) Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
Lockage (n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
The entire lock will be about fifty feet. -- De Witt Clinton.
Lockage (n.) A fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway.
Lockage (n.) A system of locks in a canal or waterway.
Lockage (n.) Passage through a lock in a canal or waterway.
Lock-down (n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen. [U.S.]
Lockdown (n.) （尤指監獄暴動時的）嚴防禁閉；一級封鎖 [North American] The confining of prisoners to their cells, typically after an escape or to regain control during a riot.
‘The lockdown has been in effect since October 1983.’
Lockdown (n.) A state of isolation or restricted access instituted as a security measure.
‘The university is on lockdown and nobody has been able to leave.’
Locked-jaw (n.) See Lockjaw.
Locken (obs. p. p.) of Lock.
Locken (n.) The globeflower (Trollius).
Locker (n.) （體育館等公共場所供個人用的）衣物櫃；【美】（冷藏貨棧出租的）冷藏格；上鎖的人 One who, or that which, locks.
Locker (n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
Chain locker (Naut.), A compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables.
Davy Jones's locker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones.
Shot locker, A compartment where shot are deposited. -- Totten.
Locker (n.) A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock [syn: cabinet, locker, storage locker].
Locker (n.) A fastener that locks or closes.
Locker (n.) A trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) [syn: footlocker, locker].
Locket (n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.
Locket (n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
Lock hospital () A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
Lockjaw (n.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
Lockless (a.) Destitute of a lock.
Lockman (n.) A public executioner.
Lockout (n.) The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
Lockram (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.
Locksmith (n.) An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
Lock stitch () A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.
Lockup (n.) 鎖；鎖住；（臨時）拘留所；監獄 A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse ; a jail.
Lockup (n.) The act or state of temporary imprisonment in a lockup [1].
Lockup (n.) A malfunction in a machine having moving parts, such that the moving part cannot move; a seizure.
Lockup (n.) Jail in a local police station
Lockup (n.) The act of locking something up to protect it [syn: locking, lockup].
Lock-weir (n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
Locky (a.) Having locks or tufts.
Loco (adv.) [It.] (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Loco (n.) (Bot.) 【植】瘋草，洛苛草；瘋草中毒（因瘋草引起的家畜腦病） A plant ({Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
Loco (n.) (Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.
Loco (v. t.) 用瘋草毒害；〔俚語〕使發瘋，使發狂 To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. "The locoed novelist." -- W. D. Howells.
Loco (n.) A locomotive. [Colloq.] -- Kipling.
Compare: Locomotive
Locomotive (n.) [C] 機車，火車頭；【美】【俚】（比賽中啦啦隊模仿火車頭行駛時）節奏由慢到快的歡呼（或鼓動）；【英】【俚】腿 A powered rail vehicle used for pulling trains.
‘A diesel locomotive.’
Locomotive (a.) 運動的；活動的；移動的；機車的，火車頭的；有運動（或移動）力的 Relating to or effecting locomotion.
‘Locomotive power.’
Locomotive (a.) [Archaic] (Of a machine, vehicle, or animal) Having the power of progressive motion.
Loco (a.) 【口】精神錯亂的 Insane; crazy. [Originally Southwestern U. S., now slang].
Loco (a.) Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky].
Loco, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 150
Housing Units (2000): 82
Land area (2000): 0.262489 sq. miles (0.679844 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.262489 sq. miles (0.679844 sq. km)
FIPS code: 43450
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.328533 N, 97.680538 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73442
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Loco, OK
Loco
Locofoco (n.) 摩擦火柴 A friction match. [U.S.]
Locofoco (n.) 【美】民主黨黨員 A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
Locomotion (n.) 運動；移動；旅行 The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion." -- Milton.
Locomotion (n.) The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
Locomotion (n.) The name of a song and a dance, briefly popular in the 1960's; as, do the locomotion.
Locomotion (n.) The power or ability to move [syn: locomotion, motive power, motivity].
Locomotion (n.) Self-propelled movement [syn: locomotion, travel].
Locomotive (n.) [C] 機車，火車頭；【美】【俚】（比賽中啦啦隊模仿火車頭行駛時）節奏由慢到快的歡呼（或鼓動）；【英】【俚】腿 A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Consolidation locomotive, A locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers.
Locomotive car, A locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a dummy engine. [U.S.]
Locomotive engine. Same as Locomotive, above.
Mogul locomotive. See Mogul.
Locomotive (a.) 運動的；活動的；移動的；機車的，火車頭的；有運動（或移動）力的 Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
Locomotive (a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
Locomotive (a.) Of or relating to locomotion [syn: locomotive, locomotor].
Locomotive (n.) A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive].
Locomotiveness (n.) Alt. of Locomotivity
Locomotivity (n.) 移動力 The power of changing place.
Locomotiveness (n.) The quality of being locomotive; the fact of moving or having moved from one place to another; capacity for locomotion.
Locomotor (a.) 移動的 Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), A disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coordinating voluntary movements.
Locomotor (a.) Of or relating to locomotion [syn: locomotive, locomotor].
Locomotor (a.) [U] Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
Locomotor (n.) (pl. - s) 好旅行的人；移動發動機 Something that is capable of locomotion.
Loculament (n.) (Bot.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
Locular (a.) (Bot.) 有細胞的；有小室的 Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. -- Gray.
Loculate (a.) Divided into compartments.
Locule (n.) (Zool.) （動植物的）小腔 A little hollow; a loculus.
Locule (n.) A small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal [syn: locule, loculus].
Loculicidal (a.) Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
Loculose (a.) Alt. of Loculous.
Loculous (a.) Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
Loculi (n. pl. ) of Loculus.
Loculus (n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
Loculus (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
Locum tenens () A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.
Loci (n. pl. ) of Locus.
Loca (n. pl. ) of Locus.
Locus (n.) A place; a locality.
Locus (n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
Compare: Harvest
Harvest (n.) 收穫；收穫季節 [C] [U]；收成，產量 [C] 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.
Harvest (n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; 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.
Harvest (n.) 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 (Zool.), 銀鯧, 鏡魚 A marine fish of the Southern United States ({Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.
Harvest fly (Zool.), An hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada.
Harvest lord, The head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Harvest mite (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. -- Milton.
Harvest spider. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs.
Locust (n.) (Zool.) 【昆】蝗蟲 [C] ；【昆】蟬 [C]；【植】洋槐，刺槐 [C] Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.) The rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See Pastor.
Locust hunter (Zool.), An African bird; the beefeater.
Locust (n.) [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.
Locust (n.) Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short
Antennae.
Locust (n.) Hardwood from any of various locust trees.
Locust (n.) Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae [syn: locust tree, locust].
Locust () There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust.
In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law they were reckoned "clean," so that he could lawfully eat them. The name also occurs in Rev. 9:3, 7, in allusion to this Oriental devastating insect.
Locusts belong to the class of Orthoptera, i.e., straight-winged. They are of many species. The ordinary Syrian locust resembles the grasshopper, but is larger and more destructive. "The legs and thighs of these insects are so powerful that they can leap to a height of two hundred times the length of their bodies. When so raised they spread their wings and fly so close together as to appear like one compact moving mass." Locusts are prepared as food in various ways. Sometimes they are pounded, and then mixed with flour and water, and baked into cakes; "sometimes boiled, roasted, or stewed in butter, and then eaten." They were eaten in a preserved state by the ancient
Assyrians.
The devastations they make in Eastern lands are often very appalling. The invasions of locusts are the heaviest calamites that can befall a country. "Their numbers exceed computation: the hebrews called them 'the countless,' and the Arabs knew them as 'the darkeners of the sun.' Unable to guide their own flight, though capable of crossing large spaces, they are at the mercy of the wind, which bears them as blind instruments of Providence to the doomed region given over to them for the time.
Innumerable as the drops of water or the sands of the seashore, their flight obscures the sun and casts a thick shadow on the earth (Ex. 10:15; Judg. 6:5; 7:12; Jer. 46:23; Joel 2:10). It seems indeed as if a great aerial mountain, many miles in breadth, were advancing with a slow, unresting progress. Woe to the countries beneath them if the wind fall and let them alight!
They descend unnumbered as flakes of snow and hide the ground.
It may be 'like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them is a desolate wilderness. At their approach the people are in anguish; all faces lose their colour' (Joel 2:6). No walls can stop them; no ditches arrest them; fires kindled in their path are forthwith extinguished by the myriads of their dead, and the countless armies march on (Joel 2:8, 9). If a door or a window be open, they enter and destroy everything of wood in the house.
Every terrace, court, and inner chamber is filled with them in a moment. Such an awful visitation swept over Egypt (Ex. 10:1-19), consuming before it every green thing, and stripping the trees, till the land was bared of all signs of vegetation. A strong north-west wind from the Mediterranean swept the locusts into the Red Sea.", Geikie's Hours, etc., ii., 149.
Locust, NC -- U.S. city in North Carolina Population (2000): 2416
Housing Units (2000): 981
Land area (2000): 5.135025 sq. miles (13.299654 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.135025 sq. miles (13.299654 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38860
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.267185 N, 80.426805 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28097
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