Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

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.]

1. The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds.
2. The whole foot. The stag recalls his strength, his speed, / His winged heels. Denham.
3. The hind part of a shoe, either for man or beast.
4. The part of a stocking intended for the heel. To be out at the heels, is to have on stockings that are worn out.
5. Something shaped like the human heel; a protuberance or knob. Mortimer.
6. The latter part; as, a bill was introduced into the legislature at the heel of the session.
7. A spur. This horse understands the heel well. Encyc.
8. 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.

1. To arm a cock. Johnson.
2. 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.