Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEDGE-FU'MI-TO-RY, n.

A plant. Ainsworth.

HEDGE'HOG, n.

1. A quadruped, the Erinaceus. The common hedgehog has round ears, and crested nostrils; his body is about nine inches long, and the upper part is covered with prickles or spines, and the under part with hair. When attacked, this animal erects his prickles and rolls himself into a round form, which presents the points of the prickles on all sides to an assailant. Encyc.
2. A term of reproach. Shak.
3. A plant of the genus Medicago, or snail-trefoil. The seeds are shaped like a snail, downy, and armed with a few short spines. Encyc.
4. The globe-fish, Orbis echinatus. Ainsworth. This fish belongs to the genus Diodon. It is covered with long spines, and has the power of inflating its body, whence the name globe-fish. [Fr. orbe.] Cuvier. The Sea-hedgehog, is the Echinus, a genus of Zoophytes, generally of a spheroidal or oval form, and covered with movable spines. Cuvier. Cyc.

HEDGE-HOG-THIS'TLE, n.

A plant, the Cactus. Fam. of Plants.

HEDGE'-HYS-SOP, n.

A plant, the Gratiola.

HEDGE'LESS, a.

Having no hedge.

HEDGE'-MUS-TARD, n.

A plant, the Erysimum.

HEDGE'-NET-TLE, n.

A plant, the Galeopsis. The shrubby hedge-nettle is of the genus Prasium.

HEDGE'-NOTE, n.

A term of contempt for low writing. Dryden.

HEDGE'PIG, n.

A young hedgehog. Shak.

HEDG'ER, n.

One who makes hedges.

HEDGE'ROW, n.

A row or series of shrubs or trees planted for inclosure, or separation of fields. Milton.

HEDGE'-SPAR-ROW, n.

A bird of the genus Motacilla, frequenting hedges; distinguished from the sparrow that builds in thatch. Encyc. Johnson.

HEDGE'STAKE, n.

A stake to support a hedge.

HEDGE'-WRIT-ER, n.

A Grub-street writer or low author. Swift.

HEDG'ING, ppr.

Inclosing with a hedge; obstructing; confining.

HE-DON'IC, a. [Gr. ηδονη, pleasure.]

Pertaining to pleasure. The Hedonic sect in antiquity, was one that placed the highest happiness in pleasure. This was called the Cyrenaic sect.

HEED, n.

1. Care; attention. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. Milton.
2. Caution; care; watch for danger; notice; circumspection; usually preceded by take. Take heed of evil company. Take heed to your ways. Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam. xx.
3. Notice; observation; regard; attention; often preceded by give. The preacher gave good heed. Eccles. xii. Neither give heed to fables. 1 Tim. i. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed. Heb. ii.
4. Seriousness; a steady look. A heed / Was in his countenance. [Unusual.] Shak.

HEED, v.t. [Sax. hedan; G. hüten; D. hoedan; Gr. κηδεω; Sp. and Port. cuidar.]

To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. Dryden.

HEED'ED, pp.

Noticed; observed; regarded.

HEED'FUL, a.

1. Attentive; observing; giving heed; as, heedful of advice. Pope.
2. Watchful; cautious; circumspect; wary.

HEED'FUL-LY, adv.

1. Attentively; carefully; cautiously. Listen heedfully to good advice.
2. Watchfully.

HEED'FUL-NESS, n.

Attention; caution; vigilance; circumspection; care to guard against danger, or to perform duty.

HEED'I-NESS, n.

Attention; caution.

HEED'LESS, a.

Inattentive; careless; negligent of the means of safety; thoughtless; regardless; unobserving. We say, heedless children; heedless of danger or surprise. The heedless lover does not know, / Whose eyes they are that wound him so. Waller.

HEED'LESS-LY, adv.

Carelessly; negligently; inattentively; without care or circumspection. Brown.