Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.