Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: HEDGE'-NOTE – HEEL'ER
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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.
- Care; attention. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. Milton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Attentive; observing; giving heed; as, heedful of advice. Pope.
- Watchful; cautious; circumspect; wary.
HEED'FUL-LY, adv.
- Attentively; carefully; cautiously. Listen heedfully to good advice.
- 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.
HEED'LESS-NESS, n.
Inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness; negligence. Locke.
HEEL, n. [Sax. hel, hela; D. hiel; Sw. häl; Dan. hæl; L. calx. Qu. its alliance to Gr. κηλη, a tumor.]
- The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds.
- The whole foot. The stag recalls his strength, his speed, / His winged heels. Denham.
- The hind part of a shoe, either for man or beast.
- The part of a stocking intended for the heel. To be out at the heels, is to have on stockings that are worn out.
- Something shaped like the human heel; a protuberance or knob. Mortimer.
- The latter part; as, a bill was introduced into the legislature at the heel of the session.
- A spur. This horse understands the heel well. Encyc.
- The after end of a ship's keel; the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected; also, the lower end of a mast. To be at the heels, to pursue closely; to follow hard; also, to attend closely. Hungry want is at my heels. Otway. To show the heels, to flee; to run from. To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to confine. Addisom. To have the heels of, to outrun. Neck and heels, the whole length of the body.
HEEL, v.i.1
To dance. Shak.
HEEL, v.i.2 [Sax. hyldan, to lean or incline; D. hellen; Dan. helder; Sw. hälla, to tilt.]
To incline; to lean, as a ship; as, the ship heels a-port, or a-starboard. Encyc.
HEEL, v.t.
- To arm a cock. Johnson.
- To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
HEEL'ED, pp.
Supplied with a heel.
HEEL'ER, n.
A cock that strikes well with his heels.