A little heart.

An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.

Same as Heartseed.

Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.

Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.

Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.

Merry; cheerful; lively.

Shocked; dismayed.

To affect at heart; to shock.

A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.

Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.

Rankling in, or swelling, the heart.

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.

Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

Good for the heart.

Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.

characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling; as, a heated argument. Opposite of dispassionate, passionless.

One who, or that which, heats.

A low shrub (Erica vulgaris or 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. 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.

A large Northern European black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix formerly Tetrao tetrix) with a lyre-shaped tail; it is also called heath grouse, black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, and moor fowl. See heath grouse under heath, above.

Clad or crowned with heath.

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.

That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

Heathendom.

Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.

In a heathenish manner.

The state or quality of being heathenish.

The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

To render heathen or heathenish.

State of being heathen or like the heathen.

The state, quality, or character of the heathen.

Heath.

Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills.

That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.

In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.

Destitute of heat; cold.

A physiological disturbance caused by exposure to excessive heat, resulting in rapid pulse, hot dry skin, and fever, leading to loss of consciousness.

a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders; called also helm.

An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.

To render like heaven or fit for heaven.

The state or quality of being heavenly.

In a manner resembling that of heaven.

Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.

Toward heaven.

One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Heavy; dull.

To make heavy.

Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.

Clumsy; awkward.

same as ham-fisted.

Dull; stupid.

feeling or affected by sorrow or unhappiness.

burdened by cares.

a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds.

A week; a period of seven days.

In periods of seven days; weekly.

A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.

Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

Weekly; hebdomadal.

Ebony.

See Henbane.

Obtuse; dull.

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Dull; stupid.

Dullness; stupidity.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

In a Hebraistic sense or form.

To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

An Israelitish woman.

A Hebraist.

Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.

A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

hell; -- a euphemism. Used commonly in the phrase /What the heck/.

The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as /Americanism/ by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

The European blue titmouse (Parus c/ruleus).

To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry.

Shouting in order to interrupt a speech with which the shouter disagrees.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

Hectic fever.

Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

A measure of mass or weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. See 3rd gram.

The same as Hectogram.

A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.

Of or pertaining to ivy.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short.

Born under a hedge; of low birth.

Same as Haybote.

qualified; limited or restricted; as, a hedged promise.

A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

Having no hedge.

A young hedgehog.

One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.