Head – Heavnely

Head

HEAD, noun hed.

1. The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals. This part of the human body contains the organs of hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling; it contains also the brain, which is supposed to be the seat of the intellectual powers, and of sensation. Hence the head is the chief or more important part, and is used for the whole person, in the phrase, let the evil fall on my head

2. An animal; an individual; as, the tax was raised by a certain rate per head And we use the singular number to express many. The herd contains twenty head of oxen.

Thirty thousand head of swine.

3. A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place, and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party. Ephesians 5:23.

4. The first place; the place of honor, or of command. The lord mayor sat at the head of the table. The general marched at the head of his troops.

5. Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head to show the head

6. Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head or a strong head These men laid their heads together to form the scheme. Never trouble your head about this affair. So we say, to beat the head; to break the head; that is, to study hard, to exercise the understanding or mental faculties.

7. Face; front; forepart.

The ravishers turn head the fight renews. [Unusual.]

8. Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.

9. Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head on their own head But of is more usual than on.

10. State of a deer's horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head

11. The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.

12. The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also, the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.

13. The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.

14. That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.

15. The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.

16. The brain.

They turn their heads to imitate the sun.

17. The dress of the head; as a laced head [Unusual.]

18. The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.

19. Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels. The mill has a good head of water.

20. Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.

21. Crisis; pitch; highth. The disease has grown to such a head as to threaten life.

22. Influence; force; strength; pitch. The sedition got to such a head as not to be easily quelled.

23. Body; conflux.

24. Power; armed force.

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head

25. Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head Hence,

26. License; freedom from check, control or restraint.

Children should not have their heads.

He has too long given his unruly passions the head

27. The hair of the head; as a head of hair.

28. The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.

29. The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.

30. The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.

31. The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head is to suppurate.

HEAD and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion. He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.

HEAD and shoulders, by force; violently; as, to drag one head and shoulders.

They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.

HEAD or tail, or head nor tail, uncertain; not reducible to certainty.

HEAD, as an adj. or in composition, chief; principal; as a head workman.

By the head in seamen's language, denotes the state of a ship laden too deeply at the fore-end.

HEAD, verb transitive hed. To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.

1. To behead; to decapitate. [Unusual.]

2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

3. To lop; as, to head trees.

4. To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.

5. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

6. To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship; as, the wind heads us.

HEAD, verb intransitive hed. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

A broad river that heads in the great Blue Ridge of mountains.

Head-Pan

HEAD-PAN, noun hed'-pan. The brain-pan. [Not in use.]

Head-Piece

HEAD-PIECE, noun hed'-pece. Armor for the head; a helmet; a morion.

1. Understanding; force of mind. [Not common.]

Head-Rope

HEAD-ROPE, noun hed'-rope. That part of a bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is sewed.

Head-Sail

HEAD-SAIL, noun hed'-sail. The head-sails of a ship are the sails which are extended on the fore-mast and bowsprit, as the foresail, foretop-sail, jib, etc.

Head-Sea

HEAD-SEA, noun hed'-sea. Waves that meet the head of a ship or roll against her course.

Head-Wind

HEAD-WIND, noun hed'-wind. A wind that blows in a direction opposite to the ship's course.

Head-Workman

HEAD-WORK'MAN, noun The chief workman of a party; a foreman in a manufactory.

Headach

HEADACH, noun hed'ake. Pain in the head.

Headband

HEADBAND, noun hed'band. A fillet; a band for the head; also, the band at each end of a book. Isaiah 3:20.

Headborough

HEADBOROUGH, noun hed'burro. In England, formerly, the chief of a frank-pledge, tithing or decennary, consisting of ten families; called in some counties, borsholder, that is, borough; s elder, and sometimes tithing man.

Headdress

HEAD'DRESS, noun hed'dress. The dress of the head; the covering or ornaments of a woman's head.

1. The crest, or tuft of feathers on a fowl's head.

Headed

HEADED, participle passive hed'ed. Led; directed; furnished with a head; having a top. This is used in composition, as clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed, etc.

Header

HEADER, noun hed'er. One who heads nails or pins.

1. One who leads a mob or party.

2. The first brick in the angle of a wall.

Headfast

HEADFAST, noun hed'fast. A rope at the head of a ship to fasten it to a wharf or other object.

Headfirst

HEADFIRST, adverb hedfurst. With the head foremost.

Headgargle

HEADGARGLE, noun hed'gargle. A disease of cattle.

Headgear

HEADGEAR, noun hed'gear. The dress of a woman's head.

Headiness

HEADINESS, noun hed'iness. [See Heady.] Rashness; precipitation; a disposition to rush forward without due deliberation or prudence.

1. Stubbornness; obstinacy.

Heading

HEADING, noun hed'ing. Timber for the heads of casks.

Headland

HEADLAND, noun hed'land. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea, or other expanse of water.

1. A ridge or strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.

Headless

HEADLESS, adjective hed'less. Having no head; beheaded; as a headless body, neck or carcass.

1. Destitute of a chief or leader.

2. Destitute of understanding or prudence; rash; obstinate.

Headlong

HEADLONG, adverb hed'long. With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong

1. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

--He hurries headlong to his fate.

2. Hastily; without delay or respite.

HEADLONG, adjective hed'long. Steep; precipitous.

1. Rash; precipitate; as headlong folly.

Headman

HEADMAN, noun hed'man. A chief; a leader.

Headmold-Shot

HEADMOLD-SHOT, noun A disease in children, in which the sutures of the skull, usually the coronal, ride, that is, when their edges shoot over one another, and are so close-locked as to compress the brain; often occasioning convulsions and death.

Headmoney

HEAD'MONEY, noun hed'munny. A capitation-tax.

Headmost

HEADMOST, adjective hed'most. Most advanced; most forward; first in a line or order of progression; as the headmost ship in a fleet.

Headquarters

HEADQUART'ERS, noun plural The quarters or place of residence of the commander-in-chief of an army.

1. The residence of any chief, or place from which orders are issued.

Headshake

HEADSHAKE, noun hed'shake. A significant shake of the head.

Headship

HEADSHIP, noun hed'ship. Authority; chief place.

Headsman

HEADSMAN, noun hed'sman. One that cuts off heads; an executioner. [Unusual.]

Headspring

HEADSPRING, noun hed'spring. Fountain; source; origin.

Headstall

HEADSTALL, noun hed'stall. That part of a bridle which encompasses the head.

Headstone

HEADSTONE, noun hed'stone. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

1. The stone at the head of a grave.

Headstrong

HEADSTRONG, adjective hed'strong. Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; bent on pursuing his own will; not easily restrained.

Now let the headstrong boy my will control.

1. Directed by ungovernable will or proceeding from obstinacy; as a headstrong course.

Headstrongness

HEAD'STRONGNESS, noun Obstinacy. [Not in use.]

Headtire

HEADTIRE, noun hed'tire. Dress or attire for the head. 1 Esdra 3.

Headway

HEADWAY, noun hed'way. The motion of an advancing ship. A ship makes headway when she advances, as from a state of rest.

Heady

HEADY, adjective hed'y. [See Head.] Rash; hasty; precipitate; violent; disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

All the talent required, is to be heady to be violent on one side or the other.

1. Apt to affect the head; inflaming; intoxicating; strong; as spirituous liquors.

Champagne is a heady wine.

2. Violent; ; impetuous; as a heady current. [Not usual.]

Heal

HEAL, verb transitive [Latin celo; Heb. to be whole or entire, all.]

1. To cure of a disease or wound and restore to soundness, or to that state of body in which the natural functions are regularly performed; as, to heal the sick.

Speak, and my servant shall be healed. Matthew 8:7.

2. To cure; to remove or subdue; as, to heal a disease.

3. To cause to cicatrize; as, to heal a sore or wound.

4. To restore to soundness; as, to heal a wounded limb.

5. To restore purity to; to remove feculence or foreign matter.

Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings 2:21.

6. To remove, as differences or dissension; to reconcile, as parties at variance; as, to heal a breach or difference.

7. In Scripture, to forgive; to cure moral disease and restore soundness.

I will heal their backsliding. Hosea 14.

8. To purify from corruptions, redress grievances and restore to prosperity. Jeremiah 14:1.

9. To cover, as a roof with tiles, slate, lead, etc.

HEAL, verb intransitive To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; sometimes with up or over; it will heal up or over.

Healable

HE'ALABLE, adjective That may be healed.

Healed

HE'ALED, participle passive Restored to a sound state.

Healer

HE'ALER, noun He or that which cures, or restores to soundness.

Healing

HE'ALING, participle present tense Curing; restoring to a sound state.

1. Tending to cure; mild; mollifying.

HE'ALING, noun The act of curing.

1. The act of covering.

Health

HEALTH, noun helth. [from heal.] That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound, well organized and disposed, and in which they all perform freely their natural functions. In this state the animal feels no pain. This word is applied also to plants.

1. Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties.

2. Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness.

There is no health in us.

3. Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's people. Psalms 43:5,

4. Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking. Come, love and health to all; an elliptical phrase, for, I wish health to you.

Healthfully

HEALTH'FULLY, adverb In health; wholesomely.

Healthfulness

HEALTH'FULNESS, noun A state of being well; a state in which the parts of a living body are sound, and regularly perform their functions.

1. Wholesomeness; salubrity; state or qualities that promote health; as the healthfulness of the air, or of climate, or of diet, or of exercises.

Healthily

HEALTH'ILY, adjective [See Health.] Without disease.

Healthiness

HEALTH'INESS, noun The state of health; soundness; freedom from disease; as the healthiness of an animal or plant.

Healthless

HEALTH'LESS, adjective Infirm; sickly.

1. Not conducive to health. [Little used.]

Healthsome

HEALTH'SOME, adjective Wholesome. [Not used.]

Healthy

HEALTH'Y, adjective Being in a sound state; enjoying health; hale; sound; as a healthy body or constitution.

1. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthy exercise; a healthy climate; healthy recreations.

Heam

HEAM, noun In beasts, the same as afterbirth in women.

Heap

HEAP, noun

1. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as a heap of earth or stones.

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.

2. A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons.

[Inelegant and not in use.]

3. A mass of ruins.

Thou hast made of a city a heap Isaiah 25:2.

HEAP, verb transitive

1. To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.

2. To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures.

Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--Job 27:16.

3. To add something else, in large quantities.

4. To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure; as, to heap any thing in measuring.

Heaped

HE'APED, participle passive Piled; amassed; accumulated.

Heaper

HE'APER, noun One who heaps, piles or amasses.

Heaping

HE'APING, participle present tense Piling; collecting into a mass.

Heapy

HE'APY, adjective Lying in heaps; as heapy rubbish.

Hear

HEAR, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive heard, but more correctly heared.

[Latin audio; auris.]

1. To perceive by the ear; to feel an impression of sound by the proper organs; as, to hear sound; to hear a voice; to hear words.

2. To give audience or allowance to speak.

He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Acts 24:4.

3. To attend; to listen; to obey.

Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Psalms 95:7.

4. To attend favorably; to regard.

They think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 6:7.

5. To grant an answer to prayer.

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Psalms 116:1.

6. To attend to the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause between parties; to try in a court of law or equity. The cause was heard and determined at the last term; or, it was heard at the last term, and will be determined at the next. Song of Solomon 2:14Sam.15.

7. To acknowledge a title; a Latin phrase.

HEAR'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth.

8. To be a hearer of; to sit under the preaching of; as, what minister do you hear? [A colloquial use of the word.]

9. To learn.

I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John 8:43.

10. To approve and embrace.

They speak of the world, and the world heareth them. l John 4:1.

To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication.

HEAR, verb intransitive To enjoy the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. He is deaf, he cannot hear

1. To listen; to hearken; to attend.

He hears with solicitude.

2. To be told; to receive by report.

I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 1 Corinthians 11:18.

Heard

HEARD

HEARED, participle passive Perceived by the ear. [In pronunciation, this word should not be confounded with herd.]

Heared

HEARED, pp. Perceived by the ear. [In pronunciation, this word should not be confounded with herd.]

Hearer

HE'ARER, noun One who hears; one who attends to what is orally delivered by another; an auditor; one of an audience.

Hearing

HE'ARING, participle present tense Perceiving by the ear, as sound.

1. Listening to; attending to; obeying; observing what is commanded.

2. Attending to witnesses or advocates in a judicial trial; trying.

HE'ARING, noun The faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.

1. Audience; attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard. I waited on the minister, but could not obtain a hearing

2. Judicial trial; attention to the facts, testimony and arguments in a cause between parties, with a view to a just decision.

3. The act of perceiving sounds; sensation or perception of sound.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job 42:5.

And to the others he said in my hearing Ezekiel 9:5.

4. Reach of the ear; extent within which sound may be heard. He was not within hearing

Hearken

HE'ARKEN, verb intransitive h'arken.

1. To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered, with eagerness or curiosity.

The furies hearken and their snakes uncurl.

2. To attend; to regard; to give heed to what is uttered; to observe or obey.

Hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you. Deuteronomy 4:1.

3. To listen; to attend; to grant or comply with.

Hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant. I Kings 8:30.

HE'ARKEN, verb transitive h'arken. To hear by listening. [Little used.]

Hearkener

HE'ARKENER, noun h'arkener. A listener; one who hearkens.

Hearkening

HE'ARKENING, participle present tense h'arkening. Listening; attending; observing.

Hearsal

HEARSAL, for Rehearsal. [Not in use.]

Hearsay

HE'ARSAY, noun [hear and say.] Report; rumor; fame; common talk. He affirms without any authority except hearsay The account we have depends on hearsay It is sometimes used as an adjective; as hearsay evidence.

Hearse

HEARSE, noun hers. [See Herse.] A temporary monument set over a grave.

1. The case or place in which a corpse is deposited.

2. A carriage for conveying the dead to the grave. [See Herse.]

3. A hind in the second year of her age.

HEARSE, verb transitive hers. To inclose in a hearse

Hearsecloth

HEARSECLOTH, noun hers'cloth. A pall; a cloth to cover a hearse.

Hearselike

HEARSELIKE, adjective hers'like. Suitable to a funeral.

Heart

HEART, noun [Latin cor, cordis, and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion, pulsation.]

1. A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax. From this organ all the arteries arise, and in it all the veins terminate. By its alternate dilatation and contraction, the blood is received from the veins, and returned through the arteries, by which means the circulation is carried on and life preserved.

2. The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree.

3. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.

4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure etc.

The heart is deceitful above all things. Every imagination of the thoughts of the heart is evil continually. We read of an honest and good heart and an evil heart of unbelief, a willing heart a heavy heart sorrow of heart a hard heart a proud heart a pure heart The heart faints in adversity, or under discouragement, that is, courage fails; the heart is deceived, enlarged, reproved, lifted up, fixed, established, moved, etc.

5. By a metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love.

The king's heart was towards Absalom. 2 Samuel 14:1.

6. The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart

We read of men wise in heart and slow of heart

7. The seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs. There are many devices in a man's heart The heart of kings is unsearchable. The Lord tries and searches the heart David had it in his heart to build a house of rest for the ark.

Sometimes heart is used for the will, or determined purpose.

The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:5.

8. Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess.

Cheerly, my hearts.

9. Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart

10. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.

Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart 2 Samuel 6:16.

11. Disposition of mind.

He had a heart to do well.

12. Secret meaning; real intention.

And then show you the heart of my message.

13. Conscience, or sense of good or ill.

Every man's heart and conscience--doth either like or disallow it.

14. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility. Keep the land in heart

That the spent earth may gather heart again.

15. The utmost degree.

This gay charm--hath beguiled me

To the very heart of loss.

To get or learn by heart to commit to memory; to learn so perfectly as to be able to repeat without a copy.

To take to heart to be much affected; also, to be zealous, ardent or solicitous about a thing; to have concern.

To lay to heart is used nearly in the sense of the foregoing.

To set the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of.

To set the heart at rest, to make one's self quiet; to be tranquil or easy in mind.

To find in the heart to be willing or disposed.

I find it in my heart to ask your pardon.

For my heart for tenderness or affection.

I could not for my heart refuse his request.

Or, this phrase may signify, for my life; if my life was at stake.

I could not get him for my heart to do it.

To speak to one's heart in Scripture, to speak kindly to; to comfort; to encourage.

To have in the heart to purpose; to have design or intention.

A hard heart cruelty; want of sensibility.

HE'ART, verb intransitive To encourage. [Not much used.]

Heart-Ach

HE'ART-ACH, noun Sorrow; anguish of mind.

Heart-Alluring

HE'ART-ALLU'RING, adjective Suited to allure the affections.

Heart-Appalling

HEART-APPALL'ING, adjective Dismaying the heart.

Heart-Blood

HE'ART-BLOOD , noun The blood of the heart; life; essence.

Heart-Break

HE'ART-BREAK, noun Overwhelming sorrow or grief.

Heart-Breaker

HE'ART-BREAKER, adjective A lady's curl; a love-lock.

Heart-Breaking

HE'ART-BREAKING, adjective Breaking the heart; overpowering with grief or sorrow.

HE'ART-BREAKING, noun Overpowering grief; deep affliction.

Heart-Bred

HE'ART-BRED, adjective Bred in the heart.

Heart-Broken

HE'ART-BROKEN, adjective Deeply afflicted or grieved.

Heart-Buried

HE'ART-BURIED, adjective Deeply immersed.

Heart-Burn

HE'ART-BURN, noun Cardialgy; a disease or affection of the stomach, attended with a sensation of heat and uneasiness, and occasioned by indigestion, surfeit or acidity.

Heart-Burned

HE'ART-BURNED, adjective Having the heart inflamed.

Heart-Burning

HE'ART-BURNING, adjective Causing discontent.

HE'ART-BURNING, noun Heart-burn, which see.

1. Discontent; secret enmity.

Heart-Chilled

HE'ART-CHILLED, adjective Having the heart chilled.

Heart-Consuming

HE'ART-CONSU'MING, adjective Destroying peace of mind.

Heart-Corroding

HE'ART-CORRO'DING, adjective Preying on the heart.

Heart-Dear

HE'ART-DEAR, adjective Sincerely beloved.

Heart-Deep

HE'ART-DEEP, adjective Rooted in the heart.

Heart-Discouraging

HE'ART-DISCOUR'AGING, adjective [See Courage.] Depressing the spirits.

Heart-Ease

HE'ART-EASE, noun Quiet; tranquillity of mind.

Heart-Easing

HE'ART-EASING, adjective Giving quiet to the mind.

Heart-Eating

HE'ART-EATING, adjective Preying on the heart.

Heart-Expanding

HE'ART-EXPAND'ING, adjective Enlarging the heart; opening the feelings.

Heart-Felt

HE'ART-FELT, adjective Deeply felt; deeply affecting, either as joy or sorrow.

Heart-Grief

HE'ART-GRIEF, noun Affliction of the heart.

Heart-Hardened

HE'ART-HARDENED, adjective Obdurate; impenitent; unfeeling.

Heart-Hardening

HE'ART-HARDENING, adjective Rendering cruel or obdurate.

Heart-Heaviness

HE'ART-HEAVINESS, noun Depression of spirits.

Heart-Offending

HE'ART-OFFEND'ING, adjective Wounding the heart.

Heart-Pea

HE'ART-PEA, noun A plant, the Cardiospermum, with black seeds, having the figure of a heart of a white color on each.

Heart-Quelling

HE'ART-QUELLING, adjective Conquering the affection.

Heart-Rending

HE'ART-RENDING, adjective Breaking the heart; overpowering with anguish; deeply afflictive.

Heart-Robbing

HE'ART-ROBBING, adjective Depriving of thought; ecstatic.

1. Stealing the heart; winning.

Heart-Searching

HE'ART-SEARCHING, adjective Searching the secret thoughts and purposes.

Heart-Sick

HE'ART-SICK, adjective Sick at heart; pained in mind; deeply afflicted or depressed.

Heart-Sore

HE'ART-SORE, noun That which pains the heart.

HE'ART-SORE, adjective Deeply wounded.

Heart-Sorrowing

HE'ART-SOR'ROWING, adjective Sorrowing deeply in heart.

Heart-String

HE'ART-STRING, noun A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.

Heart-Struck

HE'ART-STRUCK, adjective Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.

1. Shocked with fear; dismayed.

Heart-Swelling

HE'ART-SWELLING, adjective Rankling in the heart.

Heart-Whole

HE'ART-WHOLE, adjective [See Whole.] Not affected with love; not in love, or not deeply affected.

1. Having unbroken spirits, or good courage.

Heart-Wounded

HE'ART-WOUNDED, adjective Wounded with love or grief; deeply affected with some passion.

Heart-Wounding

HE'ART-WOUNDING, adjective Piercing with grief.

Hearted

HE'ARTED, adjective Taken to heart. [Not used.]

1. Composed of hearts. [Not used.]

2. Laid up in the heart.

This word is chiefly used in composition, as hard-hearted, faint-hearted, stout-hearted, etc.

Hearten

HE'ARTEN, verb transitive h'artn. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate courage.

1. To restore fertility or strength to; as, to hearten land. [Little used.]

Heartener

HE'ARTENER, noun He or that which gives courage or animation.

Hearth

HE'ARTH, noun harth. A pavement or floor of brick or stone in a chimney, on which a fire is made to warm a room, and from which there is a passage for the smoke to ascend.

Hearth-Money

HE'ARTH-MONEY

HE'ARTH-PENNY, noun A tax on hearths.

Heartily

HE'ARTILY, adverb [from hearty.] From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity; really.

I heartily forgive them.

1. With zeal; actively; vigorously. He heartily assisted the prince.

2. Eagerly; freely; largely; as, to eat heartily

Heartiness

HE'ARTINESS, noun Sincerity; zeal; ardor; earnestness.

1. Eagerness of appetite.

Heartless

HE'ARTLESS, adjective Without courage; spiritless; faint-hearted.

Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.

Heartlessly

HE'ARTLESSLY, adverb Without courage or spirit; faintly; timidly; feebly.

Heartlessness

HE'ARTLESSNESS, noun Want of courage or spirit; dejection of mind; feebleness.

Hearts-Blood

HE'ART'S-BLOOD

HE'ART'S-EASE, noun A plant, a species of Viola.

Hearty

HE'ARTY, adjective Having the heart engaged in any thing; sincere; warm; zealous; as, to be hearty in support of government.

1. Proceeding from the heart; sincere; warm; as a hearty welcome.

2. Being full of health; sound; strong; healthy; as a hearty man.

3. Strong; durable; as hearty timber. [Not used in America.]

4. Having a keen appetite; eating much; as a hearty eater.

5. Strong; nourishing; as hearty food.

Hearty-Hale

HE'ARTY-HALE, adjective Good for the heart.

Heat

HEAT, noun [Latin aestus, for haestus, or caestus.]

1. heat as a cause of sensation, that is, the matter of heat is considered to be a subtil fluid, contained in a greater or less degree in all bodies. In modern chimistry, it is called caloric. It expands all bodies in different proportions, and is the cause of fluidity and evaporation. A certain degree of it is also essential to animal and vegetable life. heat is latent, when so combined with other matter as not to be perceptible. It is sensible, when it is evolved and perceptible.

2. heat as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals, by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs. When we touch or approach a hot body, the caloric or heat passes from that body to our organs of feeling, and gives the sensation of heat On the contrary, when we touch a cold body, the caloric passes from the hand to that body, and causes a sensation of cold.

Note. This theory of heat seems not to be fully settled.

3. Hot air; hot weather; as the heat of the tropical climates.

4. Any accumulation or concentration of the matter of heat or caloric; as the heat of the body; the heat of a furnace; a red heat; a white heat; a welding heat

5. The state of being once heated or hot.

Give the iron another heat

6. A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.

Many causes are required for refreshment between the heats.

7. A single effort in running; a course at a race. Hector won at the first heat

8. Redness of the face; flush.

9. Animal excitement; violent action or agitation of the system. The body is all in a heat

10. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as the heat of battle.

11. Violence; ardor; as the heat of party.

12. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation; as the heat of passion.

13. Ardor; fervency; animation in thought or discourse.

With all the strength and heat of eloquence.

14. Fermentation.

HEAT, verb transitive [Latin odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; L aestus, for haestus, heat tide; Gr. to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family.]

1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.

2. To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.

3. To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action.

A noble emulation heats your breast.

4. To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action.

HEAT, verb intransitive To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or extrication of latent heat

Green hay heats in a mow, and green corn in a bin.

1. To grow warm or hot. The iron or the water heats slowly.

HEAT, for heated, is in popular use and pronounced het; but it is not elegant.

Heated

HE'ATED, participle passive Made hot; inflamed; exasperated.

Heater

HE'ATER, noun He or that which eats.

1. A triangular mass of iron, which is heated and put into a box-iron to heat it and keep it hot, for ironing or smoothing clothes. [This utensil is going into disuse.]

Heath

HEATH, noun

1. A plant of the genus Erica, of many species. It is a shrub which is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. Its leaves are small and continue green all the year. It is called also ling.

2. A place overgrown with heath

3. A place overgrown with shrubs of any kind.

Heathcock

HE'ATHCOCK, noun A large fowl which frequents heaths, a species of grouse.

Heathen

HE'ATHEN, noun [Gr. from heath, that is, one who lives in the country or woods, as pagan from pagus, a village.]

1. A pagan; a Gentile; one who worships idols, or is unacquainted with the true God. In the Scriptures, the word seems to comprehend all nations except the Jews or Israelites, as they were all strangers to the true religion, and all addicted to idolatry. The word may now be applied perhaps to all nations, except to Christians and Mohammedans.

Heathen, without the plural termination, is used plurally or collectively, for Gentiles or heathen nations.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Psalms 2:8.

Heathen, however, has a plural, expressing two or more individuals.

If men have reason to be heathens in Japan--

The precepts and examples of the ancient heathens.

2. A rude, illiterate, barbarous person.

HE'ATHEN, adjective Gentile, pagan; as a heathen author.

Heathenish

HE'ATHENISH, adjective Belonging to Gentiles or pagans; as heathenish rites.

1. Rude; illiterate; wild; uncivilized.

2. Barbarous; savage; cruel; rapacious.

Heathenishly

HE'ATHENISHLY, adverb After the manner of heathens.

Heathenism

HE'ATHENISM, noun Gentilism; paganism; ignorance of the true God; idolatry; the rites or system of religion of a pagan nation.

1. Rudeness; barbarism; ignorance.

Heathenize

HE'ATHENIZE, verb transitive To render heathen or heathenish.

Heather

HE'ATHER, noun Heath.

Heathful

HEATH'FUL, adjective helth'ful. Being in a sound state, as a living or organized being; having the parts or organs entire, and their functions in a free, active and undisturbed operation; free from disease. We speak of a healthful body, a healthful person, a healthful plant.

1. Serving to promote health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthful air or climate; a healthful diet.

2. Indicating health or soundness; as a healthful condition.

3. Salutary; promoting spiritual health.

4. Well disposed; favorable.

A healthful ear to hear. [Unusual.]

Heathpea

HE'ATHPEA, , noun A species of bitter vetch, Orobus.

Heathpout

HE'ATHPOUT, noun A bird, the same as the heath-cock.

Heathrose

HE'ATHROSE, noun A plant.

Heathy

HE'ATHY, adjective [from heath.] Full of heath; abounding with heath; as heathy land.

Heating

HE'ATING, participle present tense Making warm or hot; inflaming; rousing the passions; exasperating.

1. Tending to impart heat to; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as heating medicines or applications.

Heatless

HEAT'LESS, adjective Destitute of heat; cold.

Heave

HEAVE, verb transitive heev. preterit tense heaved, or hove; participle passive heaved, hove, formerly hoven. [Gr. to breathe.]

1. To lift; to raise; to move upward.

So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay,

Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence

Had ris'n, or heaved his head.

2. To cause to swell.

The glittering finny swarms

That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores.

3. To raise or force from the breast; as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.

4. To raise; to elevate; with high.

One heaved on high.

5. To puff; to elate.

6. To throw; to cast; to send; as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen; as, to heave the lead.

7. To raise by turning a windlass; with up; as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,

8. To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers. Hence the order, to heave away.

To heave ahead, to draw ship forwards.

To heave astern, to cause to recede; to draw back.

To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side; to careen.

To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails.

To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind.

To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.

To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion.

To heave taught, to turn a capstern, etc. till the rope becomes straight. [See Taught and Tight.]

To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.

To heave up, to relinquish; [so to throw up; ] as, to heave up a design. [Vulgar.]

HEAVE, verb intransitive heev. To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,

1. To pant; to breathe with labor or pain; as, he heaves for breath.

2. To keck; to make an effort to vomit.

3. To rise in billows, as the sea; to swell.

4. To rise; to be lifted; as, a ship heaves.

5. To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost.

To heave in sight, to appear; to make its first appearance; as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached.

We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.

HEAVE, noun heev. A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward.

None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them.

1. A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast.

These profound heaves.

2. An effort to vomit.

3. An effort to rise.

Heave-Offering

HE'AVE-OFFERING, noun Among the Jews, an offering consisting of the tenth of the tithes which the Levites received, or of the first of the dough, etc. which was to be heaved or elevated. Numbers 15:1. and 18.

Heaven

HEAVEN, noun hev'n.

1. The region or expanse which surrounds the earth, and which appears above and around us, like an immense arch or vault, in which are seen the sun, moon and stars.

2. Among christians, the part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called the habitation of God, and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits. Deuteronomy 26:15.

The sanctified heart loves heaven for its purity, and God for his goodness.

3. Among pagans, the residence of the celestial gods.

4. The sky or air; the region of the atmosphere; or an elevated place; in a very indefinite sense. Thus we speak of a mountain reaching to heaven; the fowls of heaven; the clouds of heaven; hail or rain from heaven Jeremiah 9:10. Job 35:11.

Their cities are walled to heaven Deuteronomy 1:10.

5. The Hebrews acknowledged three heavens; the air or aerial heavens; the firmament in which the stars are supposed to be placed; and the heaven of heavens, or third heaven the residence of Jehovah.

6. Modern philosophers divide the expanse above and around the earth into two parts, the atmosphere or aerial heaven and the etherial heaven beyond the region of the air, in which there is supposed to be a thin, unresisting medium called ether.

7. The Supreme Power; the Sovereign of heaven; god; as prophets sent by heaven

I have sinned against heaven Luke 15:7.

Shun the impious profaneness which scoffs at the

institution of heaven

8. The pagan deities; celestials.

And show the heavens more just.

9. Elevation; sublimity.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

The brightest heaven of invention.

10. Supreme felicity; great happiness.

Heaven-Aspiring

HEAVEN-ASPI'RING, adjective Aspiring to heaven.

Heaven-Banished

HEAV'EN-BANISHED, adjective Banished from heaven.

Heaven-Begot

HEAVEN-BEGOT', adjective Begot by a celestial being.

Heaven-Born

HEAV'EN-BORN, adjective Born from heaven; native of heaven, or of the celestial regions; as heaven-born sisters.

Heaven-Bred

HEAV'EN-BRED, adjective Produced or cultivated in heaven; as heaven-bred poesy.

Heaven-Built

HEAV'EN-BUILT, adjective Built by the agency or favor of the gods; as a heaven-built wall.

Heaven-Directed

HEAVEN-DIRECT'ED, adjective Pointing to the sky; as a heaven-directed spire.

1. Taught or directed by the celestial powers; as heaven-directed hands.

Heaven-Fallen

HEAV'EN-FALLEN, adjective Fallen from heaven; having revolted from God.

Heaven-Gifted

HEAV'EN-GIFTED, adjective Bestowed by heaven.

Heaven-Inspired

HEAVEN-INSPI'RED, adjective Inspired by heaven.

Heaven-Instructed

HEAVEN-INSTRUCT'ED, adjective Taught by heaven.

Heaven-Kissing

HEAV'EN-KISSING, adjective Touching as it were the sky.

Heaven-Loved

HEAV'EN-LOVED, adjective Beloved by heaven.

Heaven-Saluting

HEAVEN-SALU'TING, adjective Touching the sky.

Heaven-Warring

HEAV'EN-WARRING, adjective Warring against heaven.

Heavenize

HEAVENIZE, verb transitive hev'nize. To render like heaven. [Unauthorized.]

Heavenliness

HEAV'ENLINESS, noun [from heavenly.] Supreme excellence.

Heavenly

HEAV'ENLY, adjective Pertaining to heaven; celestial; as heavenly regions; heavenly bliss.

1. Resembling heaven; supremely excellent; as a heavenly lyre; a heavenly temper.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly

2. Inhabiting heaven; as a heavenly race; the heavenly throng.

Heavenly-Minded

HEAVENLY-MINDED, adjective Having the affections place on heaven, and on spiritual things.

Heavenly-Mindednes

HEAVENLY-MINDEDNESS, n. The state of having the affections placed on heavenly things and spiritual objects.

Heavenward

HEAV'ENWARD, adverb Toward heaven.

Heaver

HE'AVER, noun One who heaves or lifts.

Among seamen, a staff for a lever.

Heaves

HEAVES, noun heevz. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult and laborious respiration.

Heavily

HEAV'ILY, adverb hev'ily. [from heavy.] With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

1. With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.

2. Sorrowfully; with grief.

I came hither to transport the tidings,

Which I have heavily borne.

3. With an air of sorrow or dejection.

Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?

4. With weight; oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.

5. Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily

So they drove them heavily Exodus 14:25.

Heaviness

HEAV'INESS, noun hev'iness. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body.

1. Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Proverbs 12:25.

Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. 1 Peter 1:6.

2. Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude.

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?

3. Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.

4. That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught.

5. Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil.

6. Thickness; moistness; as of air.

Heaving

HE'AVING, participle present tense Lifting; swelling; throwing; panting; making an effort to vomit.

HE'AVING, noun A rising or swell; a panting.

Heavnely

HEAV'NELY, adverb In a manner resembling that of heaven.

Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.

1. By the influence or agency of heaven.

Our heavenly guided soul shall climb.