Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 19
Heartwood (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
Heartwood (n.) The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood [syn: heartwood, duramen].
Heart-wounded (a.) Wounded to the heart with love or grief. -- Pope.
Hearty (a.) 衷心的，熱誠的；健壯的，精力充沛的 Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss. -- Marston.
Hearty (a.) Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.
Hearty (a.) Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.
Syn: Sincere; real; unfeigned; undissembled; cordial; earnest; warm; zealous; ardent; eager; active; vigorous.
Usage: Hearty, Cordial, Sincere. Hearty implies honesty and simplicity of feelings and manners; cordial refers to the warmth and liveliness with which the feelings are expressed; sincere implies that this expression corresponds to the real sentiments of the heart. A man should be hearty in his attachment to his friends, cordial in his reception of them to his house, and sincere in his offers to assist them.
Hearties (n. pl. ) of Hearty
Hearty (n.) （常用於水手）夥伴們，朋友們 [P] Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. -- Dickens.
Hearty (a.) Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome".
Hearty (a.) Providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day" [syn: hearty, satisfying, solid, square, substantial].
Hearty (a.) Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health" [syn: hearty, full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded].
Hearty (a.) Consuming abundantly and with gusto; "a hearty (or healthy) appetite".
Hearty (a.) Without reservation; "hearty support".
Heartyhale (a.) Good for the heart. [Obs.]
Heat (imp. & p. p.) Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Shak.
Heated (imp. & p. p.) of Heat.
Heating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heat.
Heat (v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
Heat me these irons hot. -- Shak.
Heat (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. -- Shak.
Heat (v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
A noble emulation heats your breast. -- Dryden.
Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.
Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
Note: As affecting the human body, heat produces different sensations, which are called by different names, as heat or sensible heat, warmth, cold, etc., according to its degree or amount relatively to the normal temperature of the body.
Heat (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.
Heat (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.
Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat! -- Milton.
Heat (n.) Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.
It has raised . . . heats in their faces. -- Addison.
The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat. -- Moxon.
Heat (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
Heat (n.) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.
Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats. -- Dryden.
[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o' Shanter." -- J. C. Shairp.
Heat (n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. "The heat of their division." -- Shak.
Heat (n.) Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. "The heat and hurry of his rage." -- South.
Heat (n.) Animation, as in
discourse; ardor; fervency ; as, in the heat of argument.
With all the strength and heat of eloquence. -- Addison.
Heat (n.) (Zool.) Sexual excitement in animals ; readiness for sexual activity; estrus or rut.
Heat (n.) Fermentation.
Heat (n.) Strong psychological pressure, as in a police investigation; as, when they turned up the heat, he took it on the lam. [slang]
Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc.
Atomic heat (Chem.), The product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4.
Dynamical theory of heat, That theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion of the ultimate particles of matter.
Heat engine, Any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine.
Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food.
Heat rays, A term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum.
Heat weight (Mech.), The product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat divided by the absolute temperature; -- called also thermodynamic function, and entropy.
Mechanical equivalent of heat. See under Equivalent.
Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), The number of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance at that temperature one degree.
Unit of heat, The quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature of a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature. The temperature usually employed is that of 0[deg] Centigrade, or 32[deg] Fahrenheit.
Heat (n.) A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature [syn: heat, heat energy].
Heat (n.) The presence of heat [syn: hotness, heat, high temperature] [ant: cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature].
Heat (n.) The sensation caused by heat energy [syn: heat, warmth].
Heat (n.) The trait of being intensely emotional [syn: heat, warmth, passion].
Heat (n.) Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus].
Heat (n.) A preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race.
Heat (n.) Utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: heating system, heating plant, heating, heat].
Heat (v.) Make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove" [syn: heat, heat up] [ant: chill, cool, cool down].
Heat (v.) Provide with heat; "heat the house".
Heat (v.) Arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up].
Heat (v.) Gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly" [syn: heat, hot up, heat up] [ant: chill, cool, cool.
down].
Heat (n.) Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving.
His point; but this I know -- hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild. _Crede expertum_ -- I have seen them, child. Gorton Swope
Heater (n.) One who, or that which, heats.
Heater (n.) Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.
Heath (n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
Heath (n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
Heath (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Heathclad (a.) Clad or crowned with heath.
Heathens (n. pl. ) of Heathen
Heathen (n. pl. ) of Heathen
Heathen (n.) An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
Heathen (n.) An irreligious person.
Heathen (a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
Heathen (a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
Heathen (a.) Irreligious; scoffing.
Heathendom (n.) That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.
Heathendom (n.) Heathenism.
Heathenesse (n.) Heathendom.
Heathenish (a.) Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.
Heathenish (a.) Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.
Heathenish (a.) Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
Heathenishly (adv.) In a heathenish manner.
Heathenishness (n.) The state or quality of being heathenish.
Heathenism (n.) The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.
Heathenism (n.) The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
Heathenized (imp. & p. p.) of Heathenize.
Heathenizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heathenize.
Heathenize (v. t.) To render heathen or heathenish.
Heathenness (n.) State of being heathen or like the heathen.
Heathenry (n.) The state, quality, or character of the heathen.
Heathenry (n.) Heathendom; heathen nations.
Heather (n.) Heath.
Heathery (a.) Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.
Heathy (a.) Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills.
Heating (a.) That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
Heatingly (adv.) In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.
Heatless (a.) Destitute of heat; cold.
Heaved (imp.) of Heave.
Hove () of Heave.
Heaved (p. p.) of Heave.
Hove () of Heave.
Hoven () of Heave.
Heaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heave.
Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. -- Shak.
Note: Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand. -- Herrick.
Heave (v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
Heave (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
Heave (v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. -- Shak.
Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores. -- Thomson.
To heave a cable short (Naut.), To haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.
To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), To warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables.
To heave a ship down (Naut.), To throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her.
To heave a ship to (Naut.), To bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.
To heave about (Naut.), To put about suddenly.
To heave in (Naut.), To shorten (cable).
To heave in stays (Naut.), To put a vessel on the other tack.
To heave out a sail (Naut.), To unfurl it.
To heave taut (Naut.), To turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight.
To heave the lead (Naut.), To take soundings with lead and line.
To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log.
To heave up anchor (Naut.), To raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.
Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
And the huge columns heave into the sky. -- Pope.
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. -- Gray.
The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. -- E. Everett.
Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. -- Prior.
The heaving plain of ocean. -- Byron.
Heave (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. -- Atterbury.
Heave (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
To heave at. (a) To make an effort at.
To heave at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), To come in sight; to appear.
To heave up, To vomit. [Low]
Heave (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves. -- Hudibras.
Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.
There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate. -- Shak.
None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. -- Dryden.
Heave (n.) (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
Heave (n.) An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea" [syn: heave, heaving].
Heave (n.) (Geology) A horizontal dislocation.
Heave (n.) The act of lifting something with great effort [syn: heave, heaving].
Heave (n.) An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves" [syn: heave, retch].
Heave (n.) The act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, raise, heave].
Heave (n.) Throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes" [syn: heave, heaving].
Heave (v.) Utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do".
Heave (v.) Throw with great effort.
Heave (v.) Rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" [syn: billow, surge, heave].
Heave (v.) Lift or elevate [syn: heave, heave up, heft, heft up].
Heave (v.) Move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight".
Heave (v.) Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" [syn: pant, puff, gasp, heave].
Heave (v.) Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave, buckle, warp].
Heave (v.) Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit [syn: gag, heave, retch].
Heaven (n.) The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense.
I never saw the heavens so dim by day. -- Shak.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven. -- D. Webster.
Heaven (n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.
Unto the God of love, high heaven's King. -- Spenser.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. -- Shak.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. -- Keble.
Note: In this general sense heaven and its corresponding words in other languages have as various definite interpretations as there are phases of religious belief.
Heaven (n.) The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2. ; as, heaven helps those who help themselves.
Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear. -- Shak.
The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. -- Milton.
Heaven (n.) Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A Heaven of beauty." -- Shak. "The brightest heaven of invention." -- Shak.
O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head! -- Hood.
Note: Heaven is very often used, esp. with participles, in forming compound words, most of which need no special explanation; as, heaven-appeasing, heaven-aspiring, heaven-begot, heaven-born, heaven-bred, heaven-conducted, heaven-descended, heaven-directed, heaven-exalted, heaven-given, heaven-guided, heaven-inflicted, heaven-inspired, heaven-instructed, heaven-kissing, heaven-loved, heaven-moving, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, heaven-warring, and the like.
Heavened (imp. & p. p.) of Heaven.
Heavening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heaven.
Heaven (v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify. [R.]
We are happy as the bird whose nest Is heavened in the hush of purple hills. -- G. Massey.
Heaven (n.) 【宗】（常大寫）天國；上帝 [U]；天空 [P1] ；極樂；極樂之地 [U] Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la]
Heaven (n.) The abode of God and the angels [ant: Hell, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, perdition, pit].
Heavenize (v. t.) To render like heaven or fit for heaven.
Heavenliness (n.) The state or quality of being heavenly.
Heavenly (a.) 天上的，神聖的，天國似的 Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
Heavenly (a.) Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.
Heavenly (adv.) 極，無比，借天神之力 In a manner resembling that of heaven.
Heavenly (adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.
Heavenly (a.) 天堂的，神聖的 Of heaven.
// A heavenly light.
// Heavenly music.
// Our heavenly Father (= God).
Heavenly (a.) (C1) 無比美好的 Giving great pleasure.
// It was a good party and the food was heavenly.
Heavenlyminded (a.) 敬神的，虔敬的 Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.
Heavenward (a & adv.) Toward heaven.
Heave offering () An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering.
Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
Heaver (n.) A bar used as a lever.
Heaves (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
Heavily (adv.) In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.