Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.