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the crop begins to fail, or the land is wanted for fome- 
thingelfe, a‘faint-foip lay maybe broken up fuccefs- 
fully for potatoes ; for the red-worm, which makes fuch 
ravages if corn be fowed without paring and burning, 
will not touch the potatoes. 
Modern writers aftedt to write fainfoin, as it it were 
“ wholefome hay whereas it is faint-foin, or “holy 
hay,”, from a prefumption of its fuperior excellence. 
Vulgar perfons confound it with cinquefoil , from the 1 
"found merely, forsno two vegetables can be more differ¬ 
ent. See j®SCH YNOMENE, CORONILLA, InDIGOFE- 
Ra, and Pterocartus. 
HEDYS'MA,_/i in phyfic, that which gives a medi¬ 
cine an agreeable fmell. 
To HEED, 'v. a. [heban, Sax.] To mind; to regard; 
to take notice of; to attend : 
With pleafure Argus the mufician heeds, 
But wonders much at thofe new vocal reeds. Dryden. 
HEED, f Care; attention.—Take heed that, in their 
tender years, ideas, that have no natural cohefion, come 
not to be united in their heads. Locke. 
Thou mull take heed , my Portius; 
The world has all its eyes on Cato’s fon. Addifon. 
Caution ; fearful attention ; fufpicious watch.—Either 
wife bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men catch 
difeafes, one of another; therefore, let men take heed of 
their company. Shakefpeare. 
Take heed; have open eye; for thieves do foot by night: 
Take heed ere fummer comes, or cuckoo birds affright. 
Shakefpeare. 
Care to avoid.—We fliould take' heed of the neglect or 
contempt of God’s worfhip. Tillotfon. —Notice; obfer- 
vation.—Speech mull come by hearing and learning ; 
and birds give more heed , and mark words more, than 
beads. Bacon. —Serioufnefs; ftaidnefs: 
He did unfeal them ; and the firfl he view’d, 
He did it with a ferious mind ; a heed 
Was in his countenance. Shakefpeare. 
Regard ; refpedtful notice.—It is a way of calling a man 
a fool, when no heed is given to what he fays. L' Efrange. 
HEED'FUL, adj. Watchful; fufpicious; vigilant: 
Give him heedful note •, 
For I mine eyeywill rivet to his face ; 
And, after, we will both our judgments join, 
In cenfure of his feeming. Shakefpeare. 
Attentive ; careful; obferving ; with of; 
Thou, heedful of advice, fecure proceed; 
My praife the precept is, be thine the deed. Pope. 
HEE'DFULLY, adv. Attentively; carefully ; cau- 
tiopfly.—Let the learner maintain an honourable opinion 
of his inftrudlor, and heedfully liflen to his inftruclions, 
'as one willing to be led. Watts. 
HEED'FULNESS, f. Caution; vigilance; attention. 
HEE'DILY, adv. Cautioufly; vigilantly. 
HEE'DINESS, f. Caution; vigilance : 
And evermore that craven cowherd knight 
Was at his backe with heartleffe heedinejfe, 
Way ting if he unwares him murther might. Spenfer. 
HEED'ING, /. The aft of taking heed. 
HEED'LESS, adj. Negligent; inattentive; carelefs ; 
thoiightlefs; regardlefs ; unobferving : with of. —Sur- 
prifes are often fatal to heedlefs unguarded innocence. 
Sherlock. 
Heedlefs of verfe, and hopelefs of the crown. 
Scarce half a wit, and more than half a clown. Dryden. 
HEED'LESSLY, adv. Carelefsly; negligently; inat¬ 
tentively.—Whilft ye difeharge the duties of matrimony, 
ye heedlefsly Aide into fin. Arbuthnot. 
HEED'LESSNESS, f Carelelfnefs ; thoughtleifnefs; 
negligence; inattention.—In the little harms they fuffer 
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from knocks and falls, they fliould not be pitied, but 
-bid do fo again; which is a better way to cure their 
heedlejfnefs . Locke. 
HEEDY, adje Careful; cautious. 
HEEL v y. [hele, Sax.] The part of the foot that 
protuberates behind.—If the luxated bone be diftorted 
backward, it lieth over the heel bone. Wifeman. —The 
whole foot of animals-: 
The flag recals his ftrength, his fpeed, 
His winged heels, and then his armed head; 
With thefe t’avoid, with that his fate to meet; 
But fear prevails, and bids him truft his feet. Denham. 
The feet, as employed in flight.—Nothing is commoner, 
in times of danger, than for men to leave their matters 
to bears and tygers, and Ihew them a fair pair of keels 
for-’t. V Efrange. —Any thing fliaped like a heel.—At 
the other fide is a kind of heel or knob, to break clots 
with. Mortimer. —The back part of a flocking: whence 
the phrafe to be out at heels, to be worn out.—A good 
man’s fortune may grow out at heels. Shakjpeare. 
To be at the Heels. To purfue clofely ; to follow 
hard : 
Sir, when comes your book forth > 
■—Upon the heels of my prefentment. Shakefpeare. 
To attend clofely: 
Could we break our way 
By force, and at our heels all hell fliould rife 
With blacked infiirredtioii, to confound 
Heav’n’s pureft light. Milton. 
To purfue as an enemy.—-The Spaniards fled on towards 
the North to feek their fortunes, being ftill chafed by 
the Englifli navy at their keelsj until they were fain to 
give them over for want of powder. Bacon. 
Want! hungry want! that hungry meagre fiend, 
Is at my heels, and chaces me in view. Otway. 
To follow clofe as a dependant: 
Through proud London he came fighing on, 
After tli’ admired heels of Bolingbroke. Shakefpeare. 
To be out at Heels. To be worn out; to be ruined, 
or bankrupt. 
To lay by the Heels. To fetter; to fhackle; to put 
into gyves.—rl began to fmoke that they were a parcel 
of mummers ; and wondered that none of the Middlefex 
juftices took care to lay them by the heels. Addifon. 
One half of man, his mind, 
Is, fui juris, unconfin’d, 
And cannot be laid by -the heels. Hudibras. 
Heel of a Mast, in a fhip, that part of the foot of 
it that is pared away flanting, that it may be fiaid aft- 
ward on. 
To HEEL, v. n. To dance : 
I cannot fing, 
Nor heel the high lavolt, nor fweeten talk. Shakefpeare. 
To lean on one fide ; as, the Ihip heels. 
To HEEL, v. a , To arm a cock. 
HEEL-PIECE, /. A piece fixed on the hinder part 
of the flioe, to fupply what is worn away. 
To HEEL-PIECE, v. a. To put a piece of leather on 
a flioe heel.—Some blamed Mrs. Bull for new heel-piecing. 
her (hoes. Arbuthnot. —Armour for the heel.—Courts are 
to be the theatres of your wars, where you fliould al¬ 
ways be as completely armed (as Achilles), and even 
with the addition of a heel-piece. Cheferfield. 
HEEL-PIECING,/. 1 he aid of repairing or renew¬ 
ing the heels of Ihoes or boots. 
HEEL'ING,/. The adl of putting on heels ; or of 
darning. 
HEEM (John David de), an eminent painter, born 
at Utrecht, in 1604. He was brought up under his father 
David, alfo a painter; and the objedts on which he 
employed himfelfWre thofe of ftill life, fuch as flowefs, 
fruits. 
