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upon a dry floor, will fprout half an inch j and if it be 
let alone, much more, until the heart be out. Bacon. — 
The inner part of any thing.—The infide or heart of 
trees is harder than the outward parts. Boyle. —If the 
foundation be bad, provide good piles made of heart of 
oak, fuch as will reach the ground. Moxon, 
Here in the heart of all the town I’ll flay, 
And timely fuccour where it wants convey. Dryden. 
Perfon; character. Ufed with refpeft to courage or 
kindnefs.—The king’s a heart of gold. Shakefpeare. 
Hey, my hearts ; cheerly my hearts. 
What fays my heart of elder ? Shakefpeare. 
Courage; fpirit.—Eve, recov’iing heart, reply’d. Milton. 
Wide was the wound ; and a large lukewarm flood, 
Red as the rofe, thence guflied grievoufly. 
That when the painim fpy’d the ftreaming blood, 
Gave him great heart and hope of victory. Spenfer. 
Seat of love : 
Ah ! what avails it me the flocks to keep, 
Who loft'my heart while I prefer-v’d my Iheep. Pope.' 
Affedtion; inclination.—Joab perceived that the king’s 
heart was towards Abfalom. 2 Sam. 
What did I not her ftubborn heart to gain ? 
But all my vows were anfwer’d with difdain. Dryden. 
Memory: though South feems to diftinguifti.—We call 
the committing of a thing to memory the getting it by 
heart ; for it is the memory that muft tranfmit it to the 
heart ; and it is in vain to expedt that the heart fliould 
keep its hold of any truth, when the memory has let it 
go. South. 
Shall I in London adt this idle part ? 
Cdmpofing fongs for fools to get by heart. Pope. 
Good-will ; ardour of zeal. To take to heart any thing, 
is to be zealous or folicitous or ardent about it.—Every 
prudent and honeft man would join himfelf to that fide 
which had the good of their country mod at heart. Ad- 
difon. —A card of that fait Which is marked with fpots 
in ftiape of a heart.—Paflions; anxiety ; concern: 
Set your heart at reft ; 
The fairy land buys not the child of me. Shakefpeare. 
Secret thoughts; recedes of the mind.—Michal faw king 
David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and ftie de- 
fpifed him in her heart, a Sam. vi. 16.—Thou faweft the 
Contradiction.between my heart and hand. King Charles. 
Men,Lome to pleafure, fome to bufinefs, take; 
But every woman is at heart w rake. Pope. 
Difpofition of mind.—Doing all things with fo pretty a 
grace, that it feemed ignorance could not make him do 
amifs, becaufe he had a heart to do well. Sidney. —The 
heart is confidered as the feat of tendernefs : a hard heart 
therefore is cruelty: 
I’ve feen thee ftern, and thou haft oft beheld 
Heart- hardening fpeCtacles. Shakefpeare. 
Such iron hearts we are, and fuch 
The bafe barbarity of human kind. Rowe. 
Secret meaning ; hidden intention : ■ 
I will on with my fpeech in your praife. 
And then lhew you the heart of my melfage. Shakefpeare. 
Confluence; fenfe of good or ill.—Every man’s heart 
and confluence doth in good or evil, even fecretly com¬ 
mitted, and known to none but itfelf, either like or dif¬ 
allow itfelf. Hooker. —Strength; power; vigour; effi¬ 
cacy.—Care muft be taken not to plow ground out of 
heart ; becaufe if ’tis in heart, it may be improved by 
marl again. Mortimer. 
That the fpent earth may gather heart again, 
And, better’d by celfation, bear the grain* Dryden . 
Utmofl degree : 
This gay charm, 
Like a right gipfy, hath, at fall and loofe, 
Beguil’d me to the very heart of lofs. - Shakefpeare. 
Life. 
For my Heart feems fometimes to fignify, if life was 
at fake ; and fo'metimes for tendernefs : 
I bid the rafcal knock upon your gate, 
And could not get him for my heart to do it. Shakefpeare. 
I gave it to a youth, 
A prating boy, that begg’d it as a fee: 
I could not for my heart deny it him. Shakefpeare. 
To find in the Heart. To be not wholly averfe.—For 
my breaking the laws of friendlhip with you, I could 
find in my heart to alk your pardon. Sidney.— It is much 
ufed in compofition for mind, or affection. 
HEART-ACH, f. Sorrow; pang; anguilh of mind; 
To die—to fleep— 
No more; and, by a fleep, to fay we end 
The heart-ach, and the thoufand natural fliocks 
That flelh is heir to. Shakefpeare. 
HEART-BLOOD, f. Heart’s blood.—Thy heart-blood 
will I have for this day’s work. Shakefpeare. —Effence.— 
The mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty. Shakefpeare. 
HE ART-BREAK, f. Overpowering forrow.—Better 
a little chiding than a great deal of heart break. Shakefp. 
HEART-BREAKER, f. A cant name for a woman’s 
curls, fuppofed to break the heart of all her lovers: 
Like Samfon’s heart-breakers, it grew 
In time to make a nation rue. Hudibras. 
HEART-BREAKING, adj. Overpowering with 
forrow : 
Thofe piteous plaints and forrowful fad rhime, 
Which late you poured forth, as ye did fit 
Befide the filver fprings of Helicone, 
Making your mufic of heart-breaking mone. Spenfer. 
HEART-BREAKING, f. Overpowering grief.—• 
What greater heart-breaking can there be to one, than to 
have all his fecret faults laid open, and the fentence of 
condemnation paffed upon him ? Hakewill. 
HEART-BURN, or Heart.Burning, f. Pain at 
the ftomach, commonly from an acrid humour.—Fine 
clean chalk is one of the moft noble abforbents, and 
powerfully corrects and fubdues the acrid humours in 
the ftomach : this property renders it very ferviceable 
in the cardialgia, or heart-burning. Woodward. —Difcon- 
tent; fecret enmity.—In great changes, when right of 
inheritance is broke, there will remain much heart-burn¬ 
ing and difcontent among the meaner people. Swift. 
HEART-BURNED, adj. Having the heart inflamed. 
—How tartly that gentleman looks' I never can fee him 
but I am heart-burn'd an hour after. Shakefpeare. 
HEART-DEAR, adj. Sincerely beloved : 
The time was, father, that you broke your word. 
When you were more endear’d to it than now, 
When your own Percy, when my heart-dear Harry, 
Threw many a northward look to fee his father 
Bring up his pow’rs; but he did long in vain! Shakefp. 
HEART-EASE, f. Quiet; tranquillity: 
What infinite keart-eafe muft kings r.egledt, 
That private men enjoy ! Shakefpeare '., 
HEART’s-EASE, f. in botany. See Viola. 
HEART-EASING, adj. Giving quiet : 
But come, thou goddefs, fair and free, 
In heav’n y’clep’d Euphrofyne, 
And by men heart-eafing Mirth. Milton » 
HEARTtFELT, adj. Felt in the confluence : 
What nothing earthly gives, or can deftroy, 
The foul’ s calm funlhine, and the heart-felt joy. 
Is virtue’s prize. Pope. 
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