Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEATH'-COCK, n.

A large fowl which frequents heaths, a species of grouse. Carew.

HEATH'EN, a.

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. Addison.

HEATH'-EN, n. [Sax. hæthen; G. heide, heath, and a heathen or pagan; D. heiden; Dan. and Sw. hedning; Gr. αθνος; from heath, that is, one who lives in the country or woods, as pagan from pagus, a village.]

1. A pagan; a Gentile; one who worships idols, or is unacquainted with the true God. In the Scriptures, the word seems to comprehend all nations except the Jews or Israelites, as they were all strangers to the true religion, and all addicted to idolatry. The word may now be applied perhaps to all nations, except to Christians and Mohammedans. Heathen, without the plural termination, is used plurally or collectively, for Gentiles or heathen nations. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Ps. ii. Heathen, however, has a plural, expressing two or more individuals. If men have reason to be heathens in Japan. Locke. The precepts and examples of the ancient heathens. Addison.
2. A rude, illiterate, barbarous person.

HEATH'EN-DOM, n.

Region of heathens. Irving.

HEATH'EN-ISH, a.

1. Belonging to Gentiles or pagans; as, heathenish rites.
2. Rude; illiterate; wild; uncivilized.
3. Barbarous; savage; cruel; rapacious. Spenser.

HEATH'EN-ISH-LY, adv.

After the manner of heathens.

HEATH'EN-ISH-NESS, n.

The state of being heathen or like heathens.

HEATH-EN-ISM, n.

1. Gentilism; paganism; ignorance of the true God; idolatry; the rites or system of religion of a pagan nation. Hammond.
2. Rudeness; barbarism; ignorance.

HEATH'EN-IZE, v.t.

To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.

HEATH'EN-IZ-ED, pp.

Rendered heathen or heathenish.

HEATH'EN-IZ-ING, ppr.

Rendering heathenish.

HEATH'EN-NESS, n.

State of being heathens.

HEATH'ER, n.

Heath.

HEATH'ER-Y, n.

A place of heath.

HEATH'-PEA, n.

A species of bitter vetch, Orobus. Johnson.

HEATH'-POUT, n.

A bird, the same as the heath-cock. Ed. Encyc.

HEATH'-ROSE, n.

A plant. Ainsworth.

HEATH'Y, a. [from heath.]

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land. Mortimer.

HEAT'ING, ppr.

1. Making warm or hot; inflaming; rousing the passions; exasperating.
2. adj. Tending to impart heat to; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating, as, heating medicines or applications.

HEAT'ING-LY, adv.

So as to impart heat to.

HEAT'LESS, a.

Destitute of heat; cold. Beaum.

HEAVE, n. [heev.]

1. A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them. Dryden.
2. A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast. These profound heaves. Shak.
3. An effort to vomit.
4. An effort to rise. Hudibras.

HEAVE, v.i. [heev.]

1. To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,
2. To pant; to breathe with labor or pain; as, he heaves for breath. Dryden.
3. To keck; to make an effort to vomit.
4. To rise in billows, as the sea; to swell.
5. To rise; to be lifted; as, a ship heaves.
6. To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost. To heave in sight, to appear; to make its first appearance; as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached. We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.

HEAVE, v.t. [heev; pret. heaved, or hove; pp. heaved, hove, formerly hoven. Sax. heafan, hefan, heofan; Goth. hafyan; Sw. häfva; D. heffen; G. heben; Dan. hæver, to heave; Gr. καφεω, to breathe; καπυω, id. Class Gb.]

1. To lift; to raise; to move upward. So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay, / Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence / Had ris'n, or heaved his head. Milton.
2. To cause to swell. The glittering finny swarms That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores. Thomson.
3. To raise or force from the breast; as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.
4. To raise; to elevate; with high. One heaved on high. Shak.
5. To puff; to elate. Hayward.
6. To throw; to cast; to send; as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen; as, to heave the lead.
7. To raise by turning a windlass; with up; as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,
8. To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers. Hence the order, to heave away. To heave ahead, to draw a ship forward. To heave astern, to cause to recede; to draw back. To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side; to careen. To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails. To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind. To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion. To heave taught, to turn a capstern, &c. till the rope becomes straight. [See Taught and Tight.] To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. To heave up, to relinquish; [so to throw up;] as, to heave up a design. [Vulgar.]

HEAV'ED, pp.

lifted; swelled; panted; tried to vomit.