274 H E A 
So fpake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, 
Well-pleas’d, but anfwer’d not. Milton. 
To be told; to have an account: with of. —I have heard 
by many of this man. ABs, ix. 13.—I was bowed down at 
the. hearing of it; I was difmayed at the feeing of it. Hofea. 
Hear of fuch a crime 
As tragic poets, fince the birth of time, 
Ne’er feign’d. Tate’s Juvenal. 
To HEAR, v. a. To perceive by the ear.—The trum¬ 
peters and fingers were as one found to be heard in praif- 
ing the Lord. 2 Chron .. v. 13.—To give an audience, or 
allowance to fpeak.—He fent for Paul, and heard him 
concerning the faith in Chrift. Aids, xxiv. 24.—To at¬ 
tend; to liften to; to obey.—A fcorner hearetk not re¬ 
buke. Proverbs. — Hear the word at my mouth, and give 
them warning from me. Ezek. iii. 17.—To-day if ye will 
hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Hebrews. —To at¬ 
tend favourably.—They think they lhall be heard for 
their much fpeaking. Mattk. 
Since ’tis your corcunand, what you fo well 
Are pleas’d to hear, I cannot grieve to tell. Denham. 
To try; to attend judicially.— Hear the. caufes, and judge 
righteoufly. Deut. i. 16.—To attend, as to one fpeaking: 
On earth 
Who againft faith or confidence can be heard 
Infallible ? Milton. 
To acknowledge a title. A Latin phrafe : 
Or kear’Jl thou rather, pure ethereal ftream, 
Whofe fountain who fhall tell > Milton. 
Hear’Jl thou fubmiffive, but a lowly birth? Prior. 
HEARD fignifies a keeper, and is fometimes initial; 
as, heard-heart, a glorious keeper : fometimes final ; as, 
cyncheard, a royal keeper. Gibfon’s Camden. It is now writ¬ 
ten herd as, cowherd, a cowkeeper : Jpypb, Saxon. 
HEAR'ER,/ One who hears.—Words, be they never 
fo few, are too many, when they benefit not the hearer. 
Hooker. 
Tell thou the lamentable fall of me, 
And fend the hearers weeping to their beds. Shakefpeare. 
One who attends doCtrine or difeourfe orally delivered 
by another; as, the hearers of the gofpel. One of a col¬ 
lected audience : 
Plays in themfelves have neither hopes nor fears; 
Their fate is only in their hearers’ ears. Ben Jonfon. 
HEAR'ING, f. The fenfe by which founds are per¬ 
ceived.—Bees are called with found upon brafs, and 
therefore they have hearing. Bacon. —Audience : 
The French ambaflador upon that inftant 
Crav’d audience; and the hour, I think, is come 
To give him hearing. Shakefpeare. 
Judicial trial.—Agrippa and Bernice entered into the 
place of hearing. ABs. —Note by the ear ; reach of hear¬ 
ing.—In our hearing the king charged thee, beware that 
none touch Abfalom. 2 Sam. xviii. 12’. 
You have been talk’d of fince your travels much. 
And that in Hamlet’s hearing. Shakefpeare. 
For the mechanifm of the ear, and the principles of 
hearing, fee the article Anatomy, vol. i. p.601, 602.— 
And for the doCtrine of found , fee the article Acoustics, 
vol. i. p. 85-91. 
To HEAR'KEN, v. n. [heapcjuan, Sax.] To liften ; 
to liften eagerly or curioufly.—He hearkens after prophe¬ 
cies and dreams. Shakefpeare. 
The gaping tnree-mouth’d dog forgets to fnarl; 
The furies hearken, and their fnakes uncurl. Dryden. 
To attend; to pay regard. —Hearken untome, thou fon 
of Zippor, Numbers.-— Thofe who put paffion in the place 
vf region, neither ufe their own, nor hearken to other 
H E A 
people’s, reafon, any farther than it fuits their humouE, 
Locke. 
There’s not a blefling individuals find, 
But fome way leans and hearkens fo the kind. Pope. 
HEARK'ENER, f. Liftener; one that hearkens. 
HEARNE (Thomas), an induftrious antiquarian, fon 
of the parifli-clerk of White Waltham in Berkfliire, where 
he was born, in 1680. His aCtive and early genius being 
noticed by Francis Charny, efq ; a gentleman who refided 
in the fame place, he generoufly fent him, at the age of 
thirteen, to the grammar-fchool of Bray; and in 1696, 
entered hinj at Edmund-hall, in Oxford, where he ac¬ 
quired a great tafte for antiquarian refearches, to which 
from his childhood he had fhown a prediledtion. He took 
his degree of bachelor of arts, and became fo attached 
to Oxford on account of the advantages it offered to his 
refearches, that he ref'ufed to take orders, and fettle in 
a cure. He was fo conftant a frequenter of the Bodleian 
library, that Dr. Hudfon, the librarian, took him for 
his coadjutor. He afterwards obtained the poft of jani¬ 
tor, and in 1712 of fecond librarian, to which were 
added fome other collegiate advantages. All thefe, 
however, he refigned through his confcientious fcruples 
of taking the oaths to George I. Thefe fcruples had 
probably grown upon him in the courfe of his antiqua¬ 
rian ftudies; for he had in his youth written a tradl in 
order to perfuade his patron, Mr. Charny, to, take the 
oaths, but without fuccefs. He continued to refide at 
the univerfity, and affi’duoufly to purfue his great bufi- 
nefs of editing old authors, till his death in 1735. The 
works edited by him amount to thirty-eight. Of thefe 
are fome dallies, fuch as Pliny the younger, Eutropius, 
Juftin, and Livy; but much the greater number are 
Chronicles, Annals, Lives, and other works, relative 
to the hiftory and antiquities of England, the publica¬ 
tion of which has entitled him to the gratitude of thofe 
engaged in fimilar purfuits. 
HEAR'SAY,/ Report; rumour; what is not known 
otherwife than by account from others.—All the ‘little 
fcramblers after fame fall upon him, publifh every blot 
in his life, and depend upon hearfay to defame him. 
Addifon. 
HEARSE,/, [of unknown etymology.] A carriage 
in which the dead are conveyed to the grave. A tem¬ 
porary monument fet over a grave.—A cenotaph is an 
empty funeral monument or tombe, ereCted for the ho¬ 
nour of the dead; in imitation of which our hearjes here 
in England are fet up in churches, during the con¬ 
tinuance of a yeare, or the fpace of certaine montlies. 
Weever. —The repolitory for a dead body: 
Befide the hearfe a. fruit.full palmtree grows 
(Ennobled fince by this great funeral) 
Where Dudon’s corpfe they foftly iaid in ground ; 
The priefts fung hymns, the foldiers wept around. 
Fairfax. 
HEART, / [heopt, Sax. hertz, Germ.] The mufcle 
which by its contraction and dilatation propels the blood 
through the courfe of circulation, and is therefore con- 
fidered as the fource of vital motion.—For the anatomi¬ 
cal and phyfiological defeription of the human heart, and 
its office in the circulation of the blood, fee the article 
Anatomy, vol. i. p. 605, 6o5.—It is fuppofed in popu¬ 
lar language to be the feat fometimes of courage, fome¬ 
times of affection, fometimes of honefty^of balenefs, and 
of all the paffions.—We all fet our hearts at reft, fince 
whatever comes from above is for 'the belt. L’EJlrange. 
But fince the brain doth lodge the pow’rs of fenfe, 
Hov/ makes it in the heart thofe paffions fpring ? 
The mutual love, the kind intelligence 
’Twixt heart and brain this fympathy doth bring. Davies. 
The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or effica¬ 
cious part.—Barley being Iteeped in water, and turned 
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