heating 
heating (he'ting), p. a. Promoting warmth or 
heat ; naving the quality of imparting heat ; 
stimulating : as, a heating medicine or diet, 
heating-back (he'ting-bak), . A chamber at 
the back of a forge in which the air-blast is 
heated. 
heatingly (he'ting-li), adv. In a heating man- 
ner ; so as to make or become hot or heated. 
heating-pan (he 'ting -pan), . 1. A pan for 
heating flaxseed and other seed from which oil 
is expressed. 2. The first pan in which sugar- 
cane juice or sugar-maple sap is heated, pre- 
paratory to dipping or evaporating. 
heating-surface (he'ting-ser''fas), n. Same as 
fire-surface. 
heating-tube (he 'ting-tub), n. In a steam- 
boiler, a water-tube connecting at each end with 
a water-space, and directly exposed to the flame, 
heatless (het'les), a. [< heat + -less.'] Des- 
titute of heat; cold. 
My blood lost, and limbs stiff ; my embraces 
Like the cold stubborn bark, noarie, and heatless. 
Fletcher, Mad Lover, lit 
Where Mars is seen his ruddy rays to throw 
Thro' heatless skies, that round him seem to glow. 
Hughes, Ecstasy, st 8. 
heat-potential (het'po-ten // shal), n. The work 
performed by the disappearance of heat. 
heat-regulatpr (het'reg'u-la-tor), n. A ther- 
mostat combined with some device for control- 
ling the draft of a furnace and regulating the 
fire. 
heat-spectrum (het'spek'trum), n. A spec- 
trum of a thermal radiation, considered not with 
reference to its effect upon the eye, but with 
reference to its intrinsic energy or heating 
power. Wherever there is a visible spectrum there is 
a heat-spectrum, and these two are really one and the 
same: only, when we speak of the visible spectrum we 
mean that part of the whole spectrum which affects the 
eye, considering each part to nave an intensity propor- 
tional to that effect ; while the heat-spectrum is the real 
spectrum in its whole extent, including both the lumi- 
nous and non-luminous rays, its intensity being everywhere 
proportional to its heating power. 
heat-spot (het'spot), n. 1. A freckle. 2. A 
spot on the surface of the body at which the 
sensation of heat can be produced. 
The relative number and arrangement of heat-spots and 
cold-spots is different for different areas of the skin. 
G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 413. 
heat-unit (het'u"nit), n. The unit quantity of 
heat ; the amount of heat required to raise 1 
pound of water (also 1 kilogram, or 1 gram: 
see calory) through 1 degree of temperature. 
Thus, 1 pound of coal, upon combustion, yields 
about 13,500 heat-units that is, heat enough to 
raise 13,500 pounds of water through 1 F. 
Beat-units per hour abstracted In ice-making. 
Sci. Amer. Supp., p. 8780. 
heaumet (horn), re. [OF., a helm: see JieZw 2 .] In 
medieval armor, a helm or helmet; specifically, 
a large helmet worn during the twelfth and thir- 
teenth centuries, usually over an inner defense, 
such as the coif of mail, or the basinet. It rested 
a, Heaume with ailettes, end of i3th century ; b, Heaume, end of i4th 
century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's " Diet, du Mobilier francais.") 
upon the shoulders, the head in some cases being free to 
move within it, and was worn only in battle. Its great 
weight led to the adoption of the armet, which adapted 
itself to the form of the head, and allowed of movement 
in all directions. 
heautomprphism (he-a-to-mor'fizm), n. [< 
Or. eavroii, m., iavri/f, f., iavrov, n., a gen. form, 
of himself, herself, itself (contr. of eo avroi', 
etc. : &, later oil = L. sui, of himself, etc. (see 
sui generis); avrov, gen. of ainif, self (see auto-)), 
+ i*op<jai, form.] Automorphism. 
Heautomorphism, in default of science, is ever the first 
resource of explanation ; i. e., we judge of others by our- 
selves. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 257. 
heave (hev), v. ; pret. heaved or hove, pp. heaved, 
hove, formerly Jtoven, ppr. hearing. [< ME. 
heven, earlier hebben (pret. hof, hef, liaif, pi. 
hoven, heven, also weak pret. hevede, hefde, pp. 
hoven, heven, ihoven, also weak pp. hewed), < AS. 
hebban (pres. hebbe, ha;bbe, impv. hef, hefe, pret. 
hof, pi. hdfeii, pp. liafen, hwfen), raise, lift, = 
2762 
05. hebbian = OFries. heva = D. heffen = MLG. 
heven = OHG. heffan, hevan, MHG. heven, heben, 
G. heben (pret. hob, pp. gehoben) = Icel. hefja 
= Sw. Mfva = Dan. hieve = Goth, hafjan (pret. 
hof, pi., in comp., hofum, pp. hafans), raise, lift; 
a common Teut. strong verb, x/ *haf, with pres. 
formative -ja (-ia), the sense 'lift' being de- 
veloped from the orig. sense ' take, take hold 
of ' (a sense appearing in the derivs. haft 1 , heft 1 , 
behoof, q. v., and in the L. cognate), = L. ca- 
pere (pres. ind. capio, perf. cepi, pp. captus), 
take, take hold of, seize (> ult. E. captive, cai- 
tiff, capture, etc., capacious, capable, etc., ac- 
cept, etc., receive, etc. : see capable, captive, etc.). 
Derivs. heavy 1 , haft 1 , heft 1 , behoof, and perhaps 
haven: see these words.] I. trans. 1. To raise; 
lift; hoist. 
They are the model of those men whose honours 
We heave our hands at when we hear recited. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, i. 3. 
Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head 
From thy coral-paven bed. 
Milton, Comns, I. 885. 
The curious custom known as heaving : on Easter Mon- 
day the men heaved the women, i. e., lifted them off the 
ground and kissed them. Bickerdyke, p. 241. 
Especially 2. To lift with obvious effort; 
raise with exertion, as something heavy or re- 
sistant. 
This shoulder was ordain 'd so thick to heave ; 
And heave it shall some weight, or break my back. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., T. 7. 
3+. To lift (a child) at baptism; baptize; also, 
to be sponsor for. 
Bot no sawle may thithen pas, 
Untyle it be als cleene als it fyrst was, 
When he was hofen at fount-stane, 
And hys crystendom thare had tune. 
Hampole, Handlyng Synne. 
4. To weigh; heft. [Prov. Eng.] 5. To cause 
to swell or bulge upward; raise above the 
former or the surrounding level: often with 
up. 
The glittering finny swarms 
That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores. 
Thomson, Autumn, 1. 923. 
Great gray hills heaved up round the horizon. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, v. 
6. To elevate or elate in condition or feeling, 
as by the operation of some potent agency or 
some moving influence ; exalt ; promote ; raise 
suddenly or forcibly to a higher state. 
Therfore hefe vp your hertis ; hast you to saile ; 
Sette furthe to the se ; sitte no lengur. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4603. 
Cicero's book, where Cato was heaved up 
Equal with heaven. E. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
Tradition they say hath taught them that for the pre- 
vention of growing schisme the Bishop was heart! above 
the Presbyter. Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. 
Strong political excitement . . . heaves a whole nation 
on to a higher platform of intellect and morality. 
W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 28. 
7t. To increase. 
Qua folus lang wit uten turn, 
Oft his fote sal find a spurn ; 
Keu his res than sal he Bare, 
Or heuen his harme with foli mare. 
Quoted in Alliterative Poems, ed. Morris (Gloss.). 
8. To bring up or forth with effort ; raise from 
the breast or utter with the voice laboriously 
or painfully: as, to heave a sigh or a groan. 
She heav'd the name of father 
Pantingly forth. Shak., Lear, iv. 3. 
Heaves abroad his cares in one good sigh. 
Browning, King and Book, I. 45. 
9. To throw upward and outward; cast or toss 
with force or effort ; hurl or pitch, as with aim 
or purpose : as, to heave a stone ; to heave the 
lead. [Chiefly uaut. and colloq.j 
I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved 
overboard. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 
The ships at first grounded two or three miles from the 
shore, yet (through the Lord's great mercy) they were 
lieaved by the seas near to the dry land. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 293. 
10. In geol., to throw or lift out of its place: 
said of the intersection of two veins, or of that 
of a cross-course with another vein. When a dis- 
placement of one or the other is caused by the intersection, 
one vein is said to heave the other out of its regular posi- 
tion. 
A vein may be thrown out on meeting another vein, in 
a line which approaches either towards its inclination or 
its direction. The Cornish miners use two different terms 
to denote these two modes of rejection ; for the first case 
they say the vein Is heaved, for the second it is started. 
Ure, Diet., III. 300. 
11. Naut., to draw or pull in any direction, 
as by means of a windlass or capstan: as, to 
heave a ship ahead (that is, to bring her for- 
heave 
ward, when not under sail, by means of a cable 
or other appliance) ; to heave up an anchor 
(to raise it from the bottom of the sea or else- 
where ) Hove apeak. See apeak. To heave aback, 
to get (a ship) in such a position, by putting the helm down 
or hauling in the weather-braces, or both, that the wind 
acts on the forward surface of the sails. To heave a 
Cable short, to haul it in until the ship lies nearly over 
the anchor. To heave a strain, to turn the capstan or 
windlass till the rope hove upon bears a strain with full 
force at the windlass. To heave a vessel about, to 
put her on the other tack. To heave a vessel down, 
to careen her for repairs by means of tackles from her 
masthead to the shore or to a hulk. 
The ship also was so leaky that I doubted it would be 
necessary to heave her down at Batavia, which was another 
reason for making the best of our way to that place. 
Cook, Voyages, II. iii. 7. 
To heave in Stays, in tacking, to bring (a ship's head) to 
the wind. To heave out, to raise (the keel) out of the 
water by careening, in order to repair or clean it. To 
heave the gorge. See gorge. To heave the lead. See 
lead. To heave the log, to ascertain a ship's rate of 
sailing by the log and glass. See log. To heave taut, 
to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope or chain becomes 
strained. To heave to, to bring the head of (a vessel) to 
the wind ; stop the headway of. 
We passed through a large fleet of merchantmen have- 
to under shelter of Cape de Gat. 
Lady Braxsey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xxviii. 
=Bvn. 1 and 2. Hoist, Lift, etc. See raise. 
fl. intrans. 1. To be raised, thrown, or forced 
up ; rise ; swell up ; bulge out. 
Where ground beares naturally store of chamocks, the 
cheese that is made off from such ground the dayry-women 
cannot keep from heaving. 
Aubrey's Wilts, MS. Royal Soc., p. 300. (Halliwell.) 
So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low 
Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 288. 
It is of little use to expect clover as a permanent crop 
in wet soils, or those subject to heave by the annual winter 
frosts. New Amer. Farm Book, p. 132. 
2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as 
the waves of the sea, the lungs in difficult or 
painful breathing, the earth in an earthquake, 
etc. 
Dead calm in that noble breast 
Which heaves but with the heaving deep. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xi. 
The minister's . . . mind was . . . tossed to and fro 
on that stormy deep of thought, heaving forever beneath 
the conflict of windy dogmas. 
0. W. Holmes, Elsie Venner, xvii. 
On the fourth [day] the wind fell, leaving the ship dis- 
masted and heaving on vast billows. 
R. L. Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, it 
3. To pant, as after severe exertion ; labor. 
He heaves for breath, which, from his lungs supply'd, 
And fetch'd from far, distends his lab'ring side. 
Dryden. 
The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a 
reformation ever since Wickliffe's day. Atterbury. 
4. To make an effort to vomit; retch. 5f. To 
mount. 6f. To labor heavily ; toil. 
But theron was to heven and to doone. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1289. 
Heave ho ! an exclamation used by sailors when heaving 
anchor, etc. Hence With heave and ho, with slow 
steady exertion. 
They seem in punishing but slow, 
Yet pay they home at last with heave and how. 
Sir J. Harington, tr. of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, 
[xxxvii. 89. 
To heave att, to aim at ; regard with hostile intent. 
They did not wish government quite taken away ; only 
the king's person they heaved at: him, for some purpose, 
they must needs have out of the way. 
Bp. Andrews, Sermons, IV. 12. 
In vain have some heaved at this office, which is fastned 
to the state with so considerable a revenue. 
Fuller, Ch. Hist., V. iv. 8. 
To heave at the capstan. See capstan. To heave 
In sight, to rise into the plane of vision ; become visible 
while approaching or being approached, as a ship or other 
object at sea; come into view. 
A dark line seemed to cross the western sky 
Afar and faint, and with the growing light 
Another land began to heave in sight. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 180. 
I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by eveiy one on 
board as soon as I hove in sight. 
E. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 2. 
To heave to, to bring a vessel to a standstill ; make her 
lie to. See under I. To heave together, to make a 
fishing-trip in partnership; be partners. [Fishermen's 
slang.] 
heave (hev), re. [< Jieave, i\] 1. An act of 
heaving; a lifting, throwing, tossing, or retch- 
ing exertion. 
But after many strains and heaves, 
He got upon the saddle eaves. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 411. 
2. An upward movement or expansion ; swell 
or distention, as of the waves of the sea, of the 
lungs in difficult or painful breathing, of the 
earth in an earthquake, etc. ; a forcible uplift- 
ing. 
