Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEAL'ED, pp.

Restored to a sound state.

HEAL'ER, n.

He or that which cures, or restores to soundness.

HEAL'ING, n.

1. The act of curing.
2. The act of covering. [Obs.]

HEAL'ING, ppr.

1. Curing; restoring to a sound state.
2. adj. Tending to cure; mild; mollifying.

HEAL'ING-LY, adv.

So as to cure.

HEALTH, n. [helth. from heal.]

1. That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound, well organized and disposed, and in which they all perform freely their natural functions. In this state the animal feels no pain. This word is also applied to plants. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.
2. Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties. Bacon.
3. Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness. There is no health in us. Common Prayer.
4. Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's People. Ps. xlii.
5. Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking. Come, love and health to all; an elliptical phrase, for, I wish health to you.

HEALTH'FUL, a. [helth'ful.]

1. Being in a sound state, as a living or organized being; having the parts or organs entire, and their functions in a free, active and undisturbed operation; free from disease. We speak of a healthful body; a helathful person, a healthful plant.
2. Serving to promote health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthful air or climate; a healthful diet.
3. Indicating health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
4. Salutary; promoting spiritual health. Common Prayer.
5. Well disposed; favorable. A healthful ear to hear. [Unusual.] Shak.

HEALTH'FUL-LY, adv.

In health; wholesomely.

HEALTH'FUL-NESS, n.

1. A state of being well; a state in which the parts of a living body are sound, and regularly perform their functions.
2. Wholesomeness; salubrity; state or qualities that promote health; as, the healthfulness of the air, or of climate, or of diet, or of exercises.

HEALTH'I-LY, a. [See Health.]

Without disease.

HEALTH'I-NESS, n.

The state of health; soundness; freedom from disease; as, the healthiness of an animal or plant.

HEALTH'LESS, a.

1. Infirm; sickly.
2. Not conducive to health. [Little used.] Taylor.

HEALTH'LESS-NESS, n.

State of being healthless.

HEALTH'SOME, a.

Wholesome. [Not used.] Shak.

HEALTH'Y, a.

1. Being in a sound state; enjoying health; hale; sound; as, a healthy body or constitution.
2. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate; healthy recreations. Locke.

HEAM, n.

In beasts, the same as after-birth in women. Johnson.

HEAP, n. [Sax. heap, heop; D. hoop; G. haufe; Sw. hop; Dan. hob; Russ. kupa; W. cub, a heap, what is put together, a bundle, a cube. See Class Gb, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.]

1. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.
2. A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons. [Inelegant and not in use.] Bacon. Dryden.
3. A mass of ruins. Thou host made of a city a heap. Is. xxv.

HEAP, v.t. [Sax. heapian; Sw. hopa; G. häufen; D. hoopen.]

1. To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
2. To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures. Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust. Job xxvii.
3. To add something else, in large quantities. Shak.
4. To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure; as, to heap any thing in measuring.

HEAP'ED, pp.

Piled; amassed; accumulated.

HEAP'ER, n.

One who heaps, piles or amasses.

HEAP'ING, ppr.

Piling; collecting into a mass.

HEAP'Y, a.

Lying in heaps; as, heapy rubbish. Gay.

HEAR, v.i.

1. To enjoy the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. He is deaf, he can not hear.
2. To listen; to hearken; to attend. He hears with solicitude.
3. To be told; to receive by report. I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 1 Cor. xi.

HEAR, v.t. [pret. and pp. heard, but more correctly heared. Sax. heoran, hyran; G. hören; D. hooren; Dan. hörer; Sw. höra. It seems to be from ear, L. auris, or from the same root. So L. audio seems to be connected with Gr. ους The sense is probably to lend the ear, to turn or incline the ear, and ear is probably a shoot or extremity.]

1. To perceive by the ear; to feel an impression of sound by the proper organs; as, to hear sound; to hear a voice; to hear words.
2. To give audience or allowance to speak. He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Acts xxiv.
3. To attend; to listen; to obey. To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Ps. xcv.
4. To attend favorably; to regard. They think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matth. vi.
5. To grant an answer to prayer. I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Ps. cxvi.
6. To attend to the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause between parties; to try in a court of law or equity. The cause was heard and determined at the last term; or, it was heard at the last term, and will be determined at the next. So 2 Sam. xv.
7. To acknowledge a title; a Latin phrase. Hear'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth. Prior.
8. To be a hearer of; to sit under the preaching of; as, what minister do you hear? [A colloquial use of the word.]
9. To learn. I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John viii.
10. To approve and embrace. They speak of the world, and the world heareth them. 1 John iv. To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication. Shak.

HEARD, or HEAR'ED, pp.

Perceived by the ear. [In pronunciation this word should not be confounded with herd.]