| heartedness | Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. See also the Note under Hearted. The analysis of the compounds gives hard-hearted + -ness, rather than hard + heartedness, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hearten | 1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. "Hearten those that fight in your defense." (Shak) 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land. Origin: From Heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartener | One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartfelt | Hearty; sincere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartgrief | Heartache; sorrow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hearth | 1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. "There was a fire on the hearth burning before him." (Jer. Xxxvi. 22) "Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry." (Shak) 2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. 3. <chemistry> The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. <chemistry> Hearth ends, fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. Heorthpening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; called also chimney money, etc. "He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . Burden of the hearth money." (Macaulay) Origin: OE. Harthe, herth, herthe, AS. Heor; akin to D. Haard, heerd, Sw. Hard, G. Herd; cf. Goth. Haori a coal, Icel. Hyrr embers, and L. Cremare to burn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hearthstone | Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home. "Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone." (A. Lincoln) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartily | 1. From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity. "I heartily forgive them." (Shak) 2. With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince. To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish. Synonym: Sincerely, cordially, zealously, vigorously, actively, warmly, eagerly, ardently, earnestly. Origin: From Hearty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartless | 1. Without a heart. "You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom." (J. Webster) 2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. "Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground." (Dryden) "Heartless and melancholy." (W. Irwing) 3. Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. "The heartless parasites." Heart"lessly, Heart"lessness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartlet | A little heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartlings | An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartpea | <botany> Same as Heartseed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartquake | Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. "In many an hour of danger and heartquake." (Hawthorne) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartrending | Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heartseed | <botany> A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |