Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 18
Heaper (n.) One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
Heapy (a.) Lying in heaps. -- Gay.
Heard (imp. & p. p.) of Hear.
Hearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hear.
Hear (v. t.) To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers. -- Shak.
He had been heard to utter an ominous growl. -- Macaulay.
Hear (v. t.) To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow.
Hear (v. t.) To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass.
Hear (v. t.) To give attention to as a teacher or judge.
Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. -- 2 Sam. xv. 3.
I beseech your honor to hear me one single word. -- Shak.
Hear (v. t.) To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor.
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. -- Ps. cxvi. 1.
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. -- Matt. vi. 7.
Hear him. See Remark, under Hear, v. i.
To hear a bird sing, To receive private communication. [Colloq.] -- Shak.
To hear say, To hear one say; to learn by common report; to receive by rumor. [Colloq.]
Hear (v. i.) To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. "The hearing ear." -- Prov. xx. 12.
Hear (v. i.) To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen.
So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not. -- Milton.
Hear (v. i.) To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter.
I have heard, sir, of such a man. -- Shak.
I must hear from thee every day in the hour. -- Shak.
To hear ill, To be blamed. [Obs.]
Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings. -- Holland.
To hear well, To be praised. [Obs.]
Note: Hear, or Hear him, is often used in the imperative, especially in the course of a speech in English assemblies, to call attention to the words of the speaker.
Hear him, . . . a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision. -- Macaulay.
Heard () imp. & p. p. of Hear.
Hearer (n.) One who hears; an auditor.
Hearing (n.) The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. -- Job xlii. 5.
Note: Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of the auditory nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly on the nerve, but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate epithelium cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the nerve. See Ear.
Hearing (n.) Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
Hearing (n.) A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.
His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. -- Shak.
Another hearing before some other court. -- Dryden.
Note: Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same thing that the word trial does at law. -- Abbot.
Hearing (n.) Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. "She's not within hearing." -- Shak.
They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. -- Tennyson.
Hearkened (imp. & p. p.) of Hearken.
Hearkening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hearken.
Hearken (v. i.) To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. -- Dryden.
Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you. -- Deut. iv. 1.
Hearken (v. i.) To inquire; to seek information. [Obs.] "Hearken after their offense." -- Shak.
Syn: To attend; listen; hear; heed. See Attend, v. i.
Hearken (v. t.) To hear by listening. [Archaic]
[She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound. -- Spenser.
Hearken (v. t.) To give heed to; to hear attentively. [Archaic]
The King of Naples . . . hearkens my brother's suit. -- Shak.
To hearken out, To search out. [Obs.]
If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy. -- B. Johnson.
Hearkener (n.) One who hearkens; a listener.
Hearsal (n.) Rehearsal. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Hearsay (n.) Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. -- Prof. Wilson.
Hearsay evidence (Law), That species of testimony which consists in a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. -- Abbott.
Hearse (n.) A hind in the second year of its age. [Eng.] -- Wright.
Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] -- Oxf. Gloss.
Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] "Underneath this marble hearse." -- B. Johnson.
Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. -- Fairfax
Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. -- Longfellow.
Hearse (n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [Obs.]
Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. -- Shak.
Hearse (n.) 靈車A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.
Hearse (v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." -- Shak.
Hearse (n.) A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle.
Hearse, (n.) Death's baby-carriage.
Hearsecloth (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. -- Bp. Sanderson.
Hearselike (a.) Suitable to a funeral.
If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols. -- Bacon.
Heart (n.) (Anat.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! -- Shak.
Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being completely separated from the left auricle and ventricle; and the blood flows from the systemic veins to the right auricle, thence to the right ventricle, from which it is forced to the lungs, then returned to the left auricle, thence passes to the left ventricle, from which it is driven into the systemic arteries. See Illust. under Aorta. In fishes there are but one auricle and one ventricle, the blood being pumped from the ventricle through the gills to the system, and thence returned to the auricle. In most amphibians and reptiles, the separation of the auricles is partial or complete, and in reptiles the ventricles also are separated more or less completely. The so-called lymph hearts, found in many amphibians, reptiles, and birds, are contractile sacs, which pump the lymph into the veins.
Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain. -- Emerson.
Heart (n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
Exploits done in the heart of France. -- Shak.
Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. -- Wordsworth.
Heart (n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
Eve, recovering heart, replied. -- Milton.
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another. -- Sir W. Temple.
Heart (n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
That the spent earth may gather heart again. -- Dryden.
Heart (n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
Heart (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
Heart (n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
And then show you the heart of my message. -- Shak.
Heart (n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. "I speak to thee, my heart." -- Shak.
Note: Heart is used in many compounds, the most of which need no special explanation; as, heart-appalling, heart-breaking, heart-cheering, heart-chilled, heart-expanding, heart-free, heart-hardened, heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching, heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-sore, heart-stirring, heart-touching, heart-wearing, heart-whole, heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc.
After one's own heart, Conforming with one's inmost approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart.
The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart. -- 1 Sam. xiii. 14.
At heart, In the inmost character or disposition; at bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man.
By heart, In the closest or most thorough manner; as, to know or learn by heart. "Composing songs, for fools to get by heart" (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn thoroughly). -- Pope.
To learn by heart, To memorize.
For my heart, For my life; if my life were at stake. [Obs.] "I could not get him for my heart to do it." -- Shak.
Heart bond (Masonry), A bond in which no header stone stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid header fashion. -- Knight.
Heart and hand, With enthusiastic co["o]peration.
Heart hardness, Hardness of heart; callousness of feeling; moral insensibility. -- Shak.
Heart heaviness, Depression of spirits. -- Shak.
Heart point (Her.), The fess point. See Escutcheon.
Heart rising, A rising of the heart, as in opposition.
Heart shell (Zool.), Any marine, bivalve shell of the genus Cardium and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell; esp., the European Isocardia cor; -- called also heart cockle.
Heart sickness, Extreme depression of spirits.
Heart and soul, With the utmost earnestness.
Heart urchin (Zool.), Any heartshaped, spatangoid sea urchin. See Spatangoid.
Heart wheel, A form of cam, shaped like a heart. See Cam.
In good heart, In good courage; in good hope.
Out of heart, Discouraged.
Poor heart, An exclamation of pity.
To break the heart of. (a) To bring to despair or hopeless grief; to cause to be utterly cast down by sorrow.
To break the heart of. (b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly; -- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the heart of the task.
To find in the heart, To be willing or disposed. "I could find in my heart to ask your pardon." -- Sir P. Sidney.
To have at heart, To desire (anything) earnestly.
To have in the heart, To purpose; to design or intend to do.
To have the heart in the mouth, To be much frightened.
To lose heart, To become discouraged.
To lose one's heart, To fall in love.
To set the heart at rest, To put one's self at ease.
To set the heart upon, To fix the desires on; to long for
earnestly; to be very fond of.
To take heart of grace, To take courage.
To take to heart, To grieve over.
To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, To expose one's feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive.
With all one's heart, With one's whole heart, very earnestly; fully; completely; devotedly.
Heart (v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit. [Obs.]
My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason. -- Shak.
Heart (v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
Heart (n.) The locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom" [syn:
heart, bosom].
Heart (n.) The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly" [syn: heart, pump, ticker].
Heart (n.) The courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball" [syn: heart, mettle, nerve, spunk].
Heart (n.) An area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart, eye].
Heart (n.) The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty].
Heart (n.) An inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart" [syn: heart, spirit].
Heart (n.) A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; "he drew a heart and called it a valentine".
Heart (n.) A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six".
Heart (n.) A positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia].
Heart (n.) A playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it; "he led the queen of hearts"; "hearts were trumps".
Heart, () According to the Bible, the heart is the centre not only of spiritual activity, but of all the operations of human life. "Heart" and "soul" are often used interchangeably (Deut. 6:5; 26:16; comp. Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33), but this is not generally the case.
The heart is the "home of the personal life," and hence a man is designated, according to his heart, wise (1 Kings 3:12, etc.), pure (Ps. 24:4; Matt. 5:8, etc.), upright and righteous (Gen. 20:5, 6; Ps. 11:2; 78:72), pious and good (Luke 8:15), etc. In these and such passages the word "soul" could not be substituted for "heart".
The heart is also the seat of the conscience (Rom. 2:15). It is naturally wicked (Gen. 8:21), and hence it contaminates the whole life and character (Matt. 12:34; 15:18; comp. Eccl. 8:11; Ps. 73:7). Hence the heart must be changed, regenerated (Ezek. 36:26; 11:19; Ps. 51:10-14), before a man can willingly obey God.
The process of salvation begins in the heart by the believing reception of the testimony of God, while the rejection of that testimony hardens the heart (Ps. 95:8; Prov. 28:14; 2 Chr. 36:13). "Hardness of heart evidences itself by light views of sin; partial acknowledgment and confession of it; pride and conceit; ingratitude; unconcern about the word and ordinances of God; inattention to divine providences; stifling convictions of conscience; shunning reproof; presumption, and general ignorance of divine things".
Heart, (n.) An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, _The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion_ -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, _Delectatio Demonorum_ (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on _Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration_.
Heartache (n.) Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang. -- Shak.
Heartbreak (n.) 難忍的悲傷或失望；心碎 Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. -- Shak.
Heartbreak (n.) Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) [syn: grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartedness].
Heartbreaking (a.) 令人心碎的，悲痛的 Causing overpowering sorrow.
Heartbreaking (a.) Causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" [syn: {grievous}, {heartbreaking}, {heartrending}].
Heartbroken (a.) 悲傷的 Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
Heartbroken (a.) Full of sorrow [syn: brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick].
Heartburn (n.) (Med.) 心痛；妒忌；胃灼熱 An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Heartburn (n.) A painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder [syn: {heartburn}, {pyrosis}].
Compare: Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (n.) 胃食道逆流（英文：Gastroesophageal reflux disease、heartburn reflux，縮寫：GERD），中國稱作胃食管反流病，亦作胃酸倒流，是指胃酸（有時加上十二指腸液）長期不正常地向上反流進入食道甚至口腔，臨床症狀包含食道黏膜受損、發炎等，引起火燒心（灼熱感）、反胃、胸骨後疼痛、慢性咳嗽、牙齒受損等，併發症包含食道炎、食道狹窄和巴雷斯特食道症。
其危險因子包含肥胖、懷孕、抽菸、食管裂孔疝和特定藥物，[1] 包含 抗組織胺、鈣離子通道阻斷劑、抗抑鬱藥和安眠藥。 其致病機轉是 下食道括約肌 （胃和食道之間交界）無力。 診斷工具包含胃鏡、上消化道攝影、食道酸鹼值監測和食道動力檢查。[1]
治療包含生活習慣調整、藥物，有時會使用外科治療。 生活習慣調整包含避免在進食後三小時內平躺、減重、避免刺激食物以及戒菸。[1] 藥物包含制酸劑、H2受體阻抗劑、氫離子幫浦阻斷劑和胃腸蠕動促進素。[1] [2] 當上述的治療無法改善時，手術也可以作為治療的選項。[1]
在西方世界，大約有10-20% 的人口有胃食管反流病。[2] 零星的胃食道逆流沒有造成相關症狀和併發症的比率又更高。[1] 此疾病最初是 1935年由美國胃腸科醫師 Asher Winkelstein所提出。[3] 而相關的症狀則是自 1925 年即被描述。[4]
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Also known as acid reflux, is a long-term condition where stomach contents come back up into the esophagus resulting in either symptoms or complications. [5] [6] Symptoms include the taste of acid in the back of the mouth, heartburn, bad breath, chest pain, vomiting, breathing problems, and wearing away of the teeth. [5] Complications include esophagitis, esophageal strictures, and Barrett's esophagus. [5]
Risk factors include obesity, pregnancy, smoking, hiatus hernia, and taking certain medicines. [5] Medications involved include antihistamines, calcium channel blockers, antidepressants, and sleeping medication. [5] It is due to poor closure of the lower esophageal sphincter (the junction between the stomach and the esophagus). [5] Diagnosis among those who do not improve with simpler measures may involve gastroscopy, upper GI series, esophageal pH monitoring, or esophageal manometry. [5]
Treatment is typically via lifestyle changes, medications, and sometimes surgery. [5] Lifestyle changes may include not lying down for three hours after eating, losing weight, avoiding certain foods, and stopping smoking. [5] Medications include antacids, H2 receptor blockers, proton pump inhibitors, and prokinetics. [5] [8] Surgery may be an option in those who do not improve with other measures. [5]
In the Western world, between 10 and 20% of the population are affected by GERD. [8] Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) once in a while, without significant symptoms or complications, is more common. [5] The condition was first described in 1935 by the American gastroenterologist Asher Winkelstein. [9] The classic symptoms had been described earlier in 1925. [10]
Compare: Gastroenterologist
Gastroenterologist (n.) A Gastroenterologist is a physician with dedicated training and unique experience in the management of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. What is Gastroenterology? Gastroenterology is the study of the normal function and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon and rectum, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts and liver. It involves a detailed understanding of the normal action (physiology) of the gastrointestinal organs including the movement of material through the stomach and intestine (motility), the digestion and absorption of nutrients into the body, removal of waste from the system, and the function of the liver as a digestive organ. It includes common and important conditions such as colon polyps and cancer, hepatitis, gastroesophageal reflux (heartburn), peptic ulcer disease, colitis, gallbladder and biliary tract disease, nutritional problems, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and pancreatitis. In essence, all normal activity and disease of the digestive organs are part of the study of Gastroenterology.
Gastroenterologist (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) A doctor who specializes in diseases of the digestive system.
Gastroenterologist (n.) A physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Compare: Esophageal
Esophageal (a.) (Anat.) 食道的Pertaining to the esophagus. [Written also [oe]sophageal.]
Compare: Esophagus
Esophagus (n.) (pl. Esophagi) (Anatomy, Zoology) 【解】食管 A muscular passage connecting the mouth or pharynx with the stomach in invertebrate and vertebrate animals: gullet.
Esophagus (n.) (Anat.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also [oe]sophagus.] Esopian
Esophagus (n.) The passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet].
Compare: Gullet
Gullet (n.) 食道；咽喉；海峽；水路；峽谷 The passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus.
Gullet (n.) (Anat.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
Gullet (n.) Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as:
Gullet (n.) (a) A channel for water.
Gullet (n.) (b) (Engin.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations,
of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
Gullet (n.) (c) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.
Gullet (n.) The passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet].
Compare: Oesophagus
Oesophagus (n.) (US E sophagus) 【解】食道 The part of the alimentary canal which connects the throat to the stomach. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
Oesophagus (n.) Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.
Compare: Esophagus
Esophagus (Anat.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also [oe]sophagus.] Esopian
Oesophagus (n.) The passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet].
Heartburned (a.) Having heartburn. -- Shak.
Heartburning (a.) Causing discontent.
Heartburning (n.) (Med.) Same as Heartburn.
Heartburning (n.) Discontent; secret enmity. -- Swift.
The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. -- Palfrey.
Heartburning (n.) Intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals".
Heartdear (a.) Sincerely beloved. [R.] -- Shak.
Heartdeep (a.) Rooted in the heart. -- Herbert.
Heart-eating (a.) Preying on the heart.
Hearted (a.) Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).
Hearted (a.) Shaped like a heart; cordate. [R.] -- Landor.
Hearted (a.) Seated or laid up in the heart.
I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted. -- Shak.
Note: This word is chiefly used in composition; as, hard-hearted, faint-hearted, kind-hearted, lion-hearted, stout-hearted, etc. Hence the nouns hard-heartedness, faint-heartedness, etc.
Heartedness (n.) Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. [R.] -- Clarendon.
Note: See also the Note under Hearted. The analysis of the compounds gives hard-hearted + -ness, rather than hard + heartedness, etc.
Hearten (v. t.) To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.
Hearten those that fight in your defense. -- Shak.
Hearten (v. t.) To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
Hearten (v.) Give encouragement to [syn: cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden] [ant: dishearten, put off].
Heartener (n.) One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. -- W. Browne.
Heartfelt (a.) 衷心的，真誠的 Hearty; sincere.
Heartfelt (a.) Earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "devout wishes for their success"; "heartfelt condolences" [syn: {dear}, {devout}, {earnest}, {heartfelt}].
Heartfelt (a.) (Of a feeling or its expression) Deeply and strongly felt; sincere.
‘Our heartfelt thanks.’
Heartful (n.) As much as the heart can hold or contain; as much as a person wants or can endure.
Heartful (a.) 熱誠的，真誠的 Characterized by deep emotion or sincerity of expression; genuine, sincere, heartfelt. Of an emotion: deeply or acutely felt; intense.
Heartful (a.) Full of heartfelt emotion: Hearty. Heartfully adv.
// Heartful prayers.
Heartfulness (n.) The fact or quality of being heartful; sincerity or warmth of feeling or expression.
Heartfulness (n.) [U] A type of meditation that involves being aware of your heart, thought to create a feeling of calm.
// Heartfulness is a simple and effective way to integrate meditation into our daily life.
// The heartfulness technique shows us to gently turn our attention towards our heart and experience that inner presence for ourselves.
Heartfulness (n.) (uncountable) The state or quality of being heartful.
Heartgrief (n.) Heartache; sorrow. -- Milton.
Hearth (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. -- Jer. xxxvi. 22.
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. -- Shak.
Hearth (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
Household talk and phrases of the hearth. -- Tennyson.
Hearth (n.) (Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.
Hearth ends (Metal.), Fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast.
Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. heor[eth]pening], A tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also chimney money, etc.
He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. -- Macaulay.
Hearth (n.) An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" [syn: fireplace, hearth, open fireplace].
Hearth (n.) Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" [syn: hearth, fireside].
Hearth (n.) An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire" [syn: hearth, fireside].
Hearth, () Heb. ah (Jer. 36:22, 23; R.V., "brazier"), meaning a large pot like a brazier, a portable furnace in which fire was kept in the king's winter apartment.
Heb. kiyor (Zech. 12:6; R.V., "pan"), A fire-pan.
Heb. moqed (Ps. 102:3; R.V., "fire-brand"), Properly a fagot.
Heb. yaqud (Isa. 30:14), A burning mass on a hearth.
Hearthstone (n.) Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.
Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone. -- A. Lincoln.
Hearthstone (n.) A stone that forms a hearth.
Heartily (adv.) From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.
I heartily forgive them. -- Shak.
Heartily (adv.) With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince.
To eat heartily, To eat freely and with relish. -- Addison.
Syn: Sincerely; cordially; zealously; vigorously; actively; warmly; eagerly; ardently; earnestly.
Heartily (adv.) With gusto and without reservation; "the boy threw himself heartily into his work".
Heartily (adv.) In a hearty manner; "`Yes,' the children chorused heartily"; "We welcomed her warmly" [syn: heartily, cordially, warmly].
Heartiness (n.) The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.
Heartless (a.) Without a heart.
You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom. -- J. Webster.
Heartless (a.) Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.
Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. -- Dryden.
Heartless and melancholy. -- W. Irwing.
Heartless (a.) Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. "The heartless parasites." -- Byron. -- Heart"less*ly,
adv. -- Heart"less*ness, n.
Heartlet (n.) A little heart.
Heartlings (interj.) An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Heartpea (n.) (Bot.) Same as Heartseed.
Heartquake (n.) Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
In many an hour of danger and heartquake. -- Hawthorne.
Heartrending (a.) Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
Heart-robbing (a.) Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness". -- Spenser.
Heart-robbing (a.) Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
Pansy (n.; pl. Pansies.) (Bot.) Viola ({Viola tricolor"> A plant of the genus Viola ({Viola tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors.
Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
Heart's-ease (n.) Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. -- Shak.
Heart's-ease (n.) (Bot.) A species of violet ({Viola tricolor), a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived; -- called also pansy.
Syn: wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor.
Heart's-ease (n.) (Bot.) A violet of the Pacific coast of North America ({Viola ocellata) having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet.
Syn: two-eyed violet, heartsease, Viola ocellata.
Heart's-ease (n.) (Bot.) A common Old World viola ({Viola arvensis) with creamy often violet-tinged flowers.
Syn: field pansy, heartsease, Viola arvensis.
Heartseed (n.) (Bot.) A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. -- Loudon. heartshaped
Heartshaped (a.) Having the shape of a heart; cordate. -- of a leaf shape.
Heartsick (a.) Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
Heartsome (a.) Merry; cheerful; lively. [Scot.]
Heart-spoon (n.) A part of the breastbone. [Obs.]
He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. -- Chaucer.
Heartstricken (a.) Shocked; dismayed.
Heartstrike (v. t.) To affect at heart; to shock. [R.] "They seek to heartstrike us." -- B. Jonson.
Heartstring (n.) A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. -- Shak.
Heartstruck (a.) Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind. "His heartstruck injuries." -- Shak.
Heartstruck (a.) Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. -- Milton.
Heartswelling (a.) Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." -- Spenser. heartwarming
Heart-to-heart (Also Heart to heart) (a.) (Of a conversation) Candid, intimate, and personal.
‘A heart-to-heart chat.’
Heart-to-heart (adv.) Candidly; intimately.
Heart-to-heart (n.) A heart-to-heart conversation.
‘They had seemed engrossed in a heart-to-heart.’
Heart-whole (a.) Having the heart or affections free; not in love. -- Shak.
Heart-whole (a.) With unbroken courage; undismayed.
Heart-whole (a.) Of a single and sincere heart ; with unconditional commitment or unstinting devotion; as, heart-whole friendship.
Syn: wholehearted.
If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. -- Bunyan.