HEED
HEED, verb transitive To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.HEED, noun Care; attention.With wanton hee...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HEEDED
HEE'DED, participle passive Noticed; observed; regarded.HEE'DFUL, adjective Attentive; observing; giving heed; as heedful of advice.1. Watchful; cautious; circumspect; wary.
HEEDFULLY
HEE'DFULLY, adverb Attentively; carefully; cautiously. Listen heedfully to good advice.1. Watchfully.
HEEDFULNESS
HEE'DFULNESS, noun Attention; caution; vigilance; circumspection; care to guard against danger, or to perform duty.
HEEDLESS
HEE'DLESS, adjective Inattentive; careless; negligent of the means of safety; thoughtless; regardless; unobserving. We say, heedless children; heedless of danger or surprise.The...
HEEDLESSLY
HEE'DLESSLY, adverb Carelessly; negligently; inattentively; without care or circumspection.
HEEDLESSNESS
HEE'DLESSNESS, noun Inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness; negligence.
HEEL
HEEL, noun [Latin calx; Gr. a tumor.]1. The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds.2. The whole f...
HEEL-PIECE
HEE'L-PIECE, noun Armor for the heels.1. A piece of leather on the heel of a shoe.
HEELER
HEE'LER, noun A cock that strikes well with his heels.
HEFT
HEFT, noun1. Heaving; effort.He cracks his gorge, his sides.With violent hefts. [Not used.]2. Weight; ponderousness. [This use is common in popular language in America. And we s...
HEFTED
HEFT'ED, adjective Heaved; expressing agitation.
HEGIRA
HEGI'RA, noun In chronology, an epoch among the Mohammedans, from which they compute time. The event which gave rise to it was the flight of Mohammed from Mecca; from which the ...
HEIFER
HEIF'ER, noun hef'er. A young cow.
HEIGH-HO
HEIGH-HO. hi-ho. An exclamation expressing some degree of languor or uneasiness. Dryden has used it for the voice of exultation.
HEIGHT
HEIGHTHEIGHTEN, verb transitive hitn. To raise higher; but not often used in this literal sense.1. To advance in progress towards a better state; to improve; to meliorate; to in...
HEIGHTEN
HEIGHTEN, v.t. hitn. To raise higher; but not often used in this literal sense.1. To advance in progress towards a better state; to improve; to meliorate; to increase in excelle...
HEIGHTENED
HEIGHTENED, participle passive hitnd. Raised higher; elevated; exalted; advanced; improved; aggravated; increased.
HEIGHTENING
HEIGHTENING, participle present tense hitning. Raising; elevating; exalting; improving; increasing; aggravating.HEIGHTENING, noun hitning. The act of elevating; increase of exce...
HEINOUS
HEINOUS, adjective An incorrect orthography. [See Hainous.]
HEIR
HEIR, noun are. [Latin haeres, haeredis.]1. The man who succeeds, or is to succeed another in the possession of lands, tenements and hereditaments, by descent; the man on whom t...
HEIR-APPARENT
HEIR-APPA'RENT, noun The man who, during the life of his ancestor, is entitled to succeed to his estate or crown.
HEIR-LOOM
HEIR-LOOM, noun are-loom. Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law descends to the heir with the house or freehold; as tables, cupboards, bedsteads, etc.
HEIRDOM
HEIRDOM, noun aredom. Succession by inheritance.
HEIRESS
HEIRESS, noun aress. A female heir; a female that inherits, or is entitled to inherit an estate; an inheritrix.
HEIRLESS
HEIRLESS, adjective areless. Destitute of an heir.
HEIRSHIP
HEIRSHIP, noun areship. The state, character or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.1.heirship movables, in Scotland, the best of certain kinds of movables which the heir...