heart 
To break the heart of. See break, >. t. To eat one's 
heart. See eat. To find In one's heart, to be willing 
or disposed. 
For my breaking the laws of friendship with you, I 
could jind in my heart to ask your pardon for it, but that 
your now handling of me gives me reason to confirm my 
former dealing. Sir P. Sidney. 
To get by heart. See by heart, above. To have at 
heart, to seek or desire earnestly. 
Friends . . . who, plac'd apart 
From vulgar minds, have honor much at heart. 
Courier, Retirement, 1. 728. 
To have In one's heart, to purpose ; have design or in- 
tention. To have one's heart In one's mouth, to be 
terrified or excited with alarm. [Colloq.J To lay to 
heart. Same as to take to heart. 
I wish your ladyships would lay this matter to heart in 
your next birthday suits. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, v. 28. 
To set one's heart at rest, to make one's self quiet ; be- 
come tranquil or easy in mind. To set one's heart on, 
to fix one's desires on ; be very desirous of obtaining or 
keeping ; desire, and strive to obtain. 
If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 
Ps. Ixii. 10. 
To speak to one's heart, in Scrip., to speak kindly to ; 
comfort ; encourage. To take heart, to be encouraged. 
But I had heard a cuckoo that very afternoon, and I took 
heart from the fact. 
J. Burroughs, The Century, XXVII. 774. 
To take heart of grace. See grace. To take to 
heart, to be much affected by ; be solicitous about ; have 
concern for. 
Sir, be not wroth for nothinge that he doth to me, for 
he is fell and proude, and therefore taketh [imperative] 
nothinge to herte that he doth to me ne seith. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ill. 537. 
Her [Semele's] myth ought to be taken to heart amongst 
the Tyburnians, the Belgravians. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, li. 
To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, to expose 
one's disposition, feelings, or intentions to every one. 
'Tis not long after 
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 
For daws to peck at Shak., Othello, i. 1. 
heart (hart), v. [< ME. herten; < heart, n. Cf. 
hearten. Cf. courage, v., encourage, ult. < L. cor 
= E. heart. "\ I. trans. 1. To give heart to; 
encourage ; hearten. [Obsolescent.] 
Thoche tarying ouer tyme turnys horn [them] to toy, 
And hertijt horn highly to hold [consider] you for faint. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4597. 
I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed, 
And fight maliciously. Shak., A. and C., iii. 11. 
2. In masonry, to build, as the interior of a 
rubble wall, solidly with stone and mortar. 
Imp. Diet. 
II. intrans. To form a close, compact head, 
as a plant ; especially, to have the central part 
of the head close and compact : as, some varie- 
ties of cabbage heart well. 
heartache (hart'ak), . [ME. not found; cf. 
AS. heort-ece, hiorot-ece, in lit. sense, (. Iteorte, 
heart, + ece, pain, ache.] 1. Pain in or of the 
heart. [Rare.] 2. Sorrow; anguish of the 
mind. 
By a sleepe, to say we end 
The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes 
That Flesh is heyre too. 
Shak., Hamlet (folio 1623), ii. 2. 
If ever I felt the full force of an honest heart-ache, it 
was the moment I saw her. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ix. 24. 
heart-beat (hart'bet), n. 1. A pulsation of 
the heart, including one complete systole and 
diastole, corresponding to that motion in the 
arteries called the pulse. 
The heart-beats became more rapid. 
Medical News, LII. 267. 
Hence 2. Figuratively, a thought; an emo- 
tion, especially one that is tender or sad; a 
pang ; a throb or throe of feeling. 
All the land was full of people, . . . 
Speaking many tongues, yet feeling 
But one heart-beat in their bosoms. 
Longfellow, Hiawatha, xxi. 
heart-bird (hart'berd), n. [Prob. so called from 
the large black area on the breast.] The turn- 
stone, Strepsilas interpres : a gunners' name. 
J. E. DeKay, 1844. [New York.] 
heart-block (hart'blok), . Naut., a large dead- 
eye formerly used for setting up the fore and 
aft stays of the lower masts. 
heart-blood (hart'blud), n. [< ME. herteblood, 
herteblod (= D. hartebloed = MHG. herzebluot, 
G. herzblut = Dan. hjerteblod = Sw. hjertablod); 
< heart + blood."] 1. Blood contained in the 
cavity of the heart, as distinguished from that 
in the vessels. 
And my harte bloode for the I bled. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 162. 
Hence 2. Life; essence; something very dear, 
precious, or vital to one's happiness: in this 
sense generally heart's blood. 
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Her wretched kinsman, 
That set this plot, shall with his heart-blood satisfy 
Her injur'd life and honour. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night -Walker, iii. 2. 
heart-bond (hart'bond), re. In masonry, a bond 
in a stone wall in which two headers meet in 
the middle of a wall and another header covers 
the joint between them. 
heart-boundt, . Hard-hearted; stingy. Da- 
vies. 
The most laxative prodigals, that are lavish and letting 
fly to their lusts, are yet heart-bound to the poor. 
Rea. T. Adams, Works, I. 169. 
heartbreak (hart'brak), re. Overwhelming sor- 
row or grief. Also heartbreaking. 
Enforced hee was to put her away ; and foorthwith to 
wed Julia, the daughter of Augustus: not without much 
griefe and heart-breake. Holland, tr. of Suetonius, p. 91. 
A man of genius [Dante] who could hold heartbreak at 
bay for twenty years, and would not let himself die till he 
had done his task. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 20. 
heartbreak (hart'brak), v. t. To break the 
heart of. [Rare.] 
I'll cross him, an' wrack him. until I heart-break him. 
Burns, What Can a Young Lassie? 
heartbreaker (hart'bra/ker), n. 1. One who 
or that which breaks hearts. 2. A curl; a 
love-lock. [Humorous.] 
Like Samson's heart-breakers, it grew 
In time to make a nation rue. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 253. 
heartbreaking (hart 'bra "king), re. Same as 
heartbreak. 
O the heartbreakings 
Of miserable maids, where love's enforc'd ! 
Middleton, Women Beware Women, i. 2. 
heartbreaking (hart'bra"king), p. a. Causing 
great grief or anguish ; very distressing or piti- 
ful. 
A powerful mind in ruins is the most heart-breaking 
thing which it is possible to conceive. 
ilacaulay, Life and Letters, I. 248. 
On reading this heartbreaking account I hurried to M. 
Clemenceau's house. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 12. 
heartbroken (hart'br6' ! 'kn), a. Deeply afflicted 
or grieved. 
Day by day he pass'd his father's gate, 
Heart-broken, and his father help'd him not. 
Tennyson, Dora. 
heartbrokenly (hart'bro"kn-li), adr. With 
deep grief. 
She arose with a smile from the ruins of her life, amidst 
which she had heart-brokenly sat down. 
Howells, Their Wedding Journey, viii. 
heartburn (hart'bern), n. An uneasy burning 
sensation rising into the esophagus from the 
stomach, due to acidity and regurgitation ; car- 
dialgia. 
Heartburn exists in a very marked degree in dilatation 
of the stomach, being produced by the decomposition of 
Indigestible food retained in this organ. 
Quain, Med. Diet. 
heartburning (hart'ber"ning), n. 1. Heart- 
burn. 2. Discontent ; especially, envy or jeal- 
ousy; enmity. 
Betweene . . . [the Dutch] and the Spaniards there is 
an implacable hartburning. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 613. 
Things of no moment, yet they cause many distempers, 
much heart-burning amongst us. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 225. 
To this unlucky agreement may be traced a world of 
bickerings and heart-burnings between the parties, about 
fancied or pretended infringements of treaty stipulations. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 290. 
heartburning (hart'ber"ning), a. Causing dis- 
content ; especially, causing envy or jealousy. 
Jealousies, strifes, and heart-burning disagreements. 
Middleton, The Witch. 
heartburnt (hart'bernt), a. Discontented. 
[Rare.] 
I am so melancholy and so heart-burnt ! 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, ii. 2. 
heart-cam (hart'kam), . In mech., a form 
of cam-wheel used for converting uniform ro- 
tary motion into uniform reciprocating motion. 
It usually assumes the form of a heart-shaped channel on 
the face of a disk, in which travels a guide-wheel at the 
end of the reciprocating arm. See cam-wheel, and cut un- 
der cam. Also called heart-wheel. 
heart-clot (hart'klot), re. A thrombus in the 
cavity of the heart. 
heart-clover (hart'kl6"ver), . Same as heart- 
trefoil. See also hart-clover. 
heart-cockle (hart'kok"!), n. Same as heart- 
shell. 
heart-disease (harfdi-zeV), . [The AS. 
term was heort-cothn, < heorte, heart, + cothu, 
disease.] Any morbid condition of the heart, 
either nervous or organic. To the latter class belong 
valvular lesions, endocarditis, pericarditis, myocarditis, 
hearth 
disease of the coronary arteries, and degeneration of the 
heart-muscle. Any of these may produce disturbance of 
the heart's action. Such disturbance independent of visi- 
ble morbid changes is called functional or nervous. 
He suddenly dropt dead of heart-disease. 
Tennyson, Sea Dreams. 
heart-ease (hart'ez), n. Same as heart's-ease, 1. 
heart-easing (hart'e"zing), a. Giving quiet to 
the mind. 
Mad that sorrow should his use control, 
Or keep him from heart-easing words so long. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1782. 
Come, thou goddess fair and free, 
In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, 
And by men. heart-easing Mirth. 
Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 13. 
heart-eating (hart'e'ting), a. Preying on the 
heart ; distressing to the mind or affections : 
as, heart-eating cares or sorrows. 
hearted (har'ted), a. [< heart + -ed?.] 1. 
Having a heart of a specified kind : generally 
used in figurative senses, and in composition : 
as, hard-hearted, faint-hearted, etc. 
It may suffice us to be taught by S. Paull that there 
must be sects for the manifesting of those that are sound 
hearted. Milton, Church-Government, i. 7. 
2t. Taken to heart; laid up or seated in the 
heart. 
I have told thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, 
I hate the Moor : my cause is hearted ; thine hath no less 
reason. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 
Yield up, O love, thy crown, and hearted throne, 
To tyrannous hate ! Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 
3t. Composed of hearts. 4. Having the shape 
of a heart; cordate. [Rare.] 
With hearted spear-head. Landor. 
heartedness (hiir'ted-nes), . The state of 
being hearted : used in composition : as, hard- 
heartedness. 
hearten (har'tn), v. t. [Early mod. E. also 
harten; < heart + -en 1 , 3. Cf. heart, r.] 1. To 
give heart or courage to ; incite or stimulate the 
courage of ; encourage; animate. 
My royal father, cheer these noble lords, 
And hearten those that fight in your defence. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2. 
They would thus harten and harden themselues against 
God and Man. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 45. 
Rise therefore with all speed, and come along, 
Where I will see thee hearten'd, and fresh clad, 
To appear, as fits, before the illustrious lords. 
Mtiton, S. A., 1. 1317. 
2. To impart strength or fertility to ; reinforce : 
as, to hearten land. [Rare.] 
And seuen yeares together did the people of the Gen- 
tiles fatten and hearten their Vines, only with the bloud 
of the lewes. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 157. 
It [arrack] makes most delicate Punch ; but it must 
have a dash of Brandy to hearten it. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 293. 
heartener (hart'ner), . [Formerly also heart- 
ner, hartner; < hearten + -er 1 .] One who or 
that which heartens or encourages. 
Sound, 
Sterne Partners unto wounds and blood sound loud. . . . 
(Cornets a flourish.) Marston, Sophonisba, v. 2. 
A coward's hart'ner in warre, 
The stirring drumme. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 1. 
heartfelt (hart'felt), a. Felt in or prompted by 
the heart ; profoundly felt ; deeply sincere : as, 
heartfelt joy or grief; heartfelt congratulations 
or cheers. 
The vote was received by the spectators with three 
heartfelt cheers. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 241. 
heart-free (hart'fre), a. Having the heart or 
affections disengaged ; heart-whole. 
A cold and clear-cut face, . . . 
From which I escaped heart-free, with the least little 
touch of spleen. Tennyson, Maud, it. 
heartfullyt (hart'ful-i), adv. [< ME. hartefully ; 
< 'heartful (< heart + -ful) + -Jj/2.] Heartily; 
kind-heartedly. 
Whanne I was wikke and werieste 
3e herbered me full hartefully. 
York Plays, p. 509. 
hearth (harth or herth), re. [Early mod. E. also 
harth; < ME. harth, herth, herthe, < AS. hearth, 
hearth, fireplace, fire, hence also home or house, 
= OS. herth = OFries. herth, hirth, herd, hird = 
D. hoard = MLG. hert, LG. heert, heerd, hearth, 
= OHG. herd, m., herda, f., MHG. hert, hearth, 
G. herd, hearth, crater of a volcano, = Sw. hard 
(from LG. ?), the hearth of a forge, a forge ; prob. 
connected with Goth, hauri, a burning coal, pi. 
haurja, burning coals, afire, = Icel. liyrr, a fire. 
Cf . Lith. kurti, heat an oven. The OHG. herd, 
MHG. hert, ground, earth, G. herth, a place where 
fowlers catch birds, is prob. of different origin, 
perhaps imported from OHG. erda, earth.] 1. 
