HEART-HEAVINESS
HE'ART-HEAVINESS, noun Depression of spirits.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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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...
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-MONEYHE'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 ...
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-BLOODHE'ART'S-EASE, noun A plant, a species of Viola.