Mark well (be flow’ring almonds in the wood ;The glebe will answer to the sylvan reign ;
Great heats will follow, and large crops of grain.
Dryden.
The pope would not comply with the proposal,as fearing the heats might advance too far beforethey had finished their work, and produce a pes-tilence among the people. Addison.
4. State of any body under the action ofthe fire.
The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white flame heat, and a sparkling orwelding heat. Mown.
5. Fermentation; effervescence.
6. One violent action unintermitted.
The continual agitations of the spirits must needs
be a weakening of any constitution, especially inage: and many causes are required for refresh-ment betwixt the heats. Dryden.
I. The state of being once hot; a singleeffort.
I’Jl strike my fortune with him at a heat ,
And give him not the leisure to forget. Dryden.
They the turn’d lines on golden anvils beat,Which look as if they struck them at a heat. Tate.
8. A course at a race, between each of|which courses there is an intermission.
Feign’d zeal, you saw, set out the speedier pace;But the last heat , plain dealing won the rac c.Dry.
9. Pimples in the face; flush.
It has raised animosities in their hearts, and heatsin their faces, and broke out in their rlbbuns. Addi.
10. Agitation of sudden or violent pas-sion ; vehemence of action.
They seeing what forces were in the city withthem, issued against the tyrant while they werein this heat, before practices might be used to dis-sever them. Sidney.
The friend hath lost his friend ;
And the best quarrels, in the heat, are curstBy those that feel their sharpness. Shakesp.
It might have pleased in the heat and hurry ofhis rage, but must have displeased in cool sedatereflection. South.
We have spilt no blood but in the heat of thebattle, or the chase. Atterbury.
One playing at hazard, drew a huge heap ofgold; but in the heat of play, never observed asharper, who swept it into his hat. Swift.
II. Faction ; contest; party rage.
They are in a most warlike preparation, andhope to come upon them in the heat of their divi-sion. Shakesp.
I was sorry to hear with what partiality midpopular heat elections were carried. King Charles.
What can more gratify the Phrygian foeThan those distemper’d heals ? Dryden.
12. Ardour of thought or elocution.
Plead it to her
With all the strength and heat of eloquenceFraternal love and friendship can inspire.
Addison's Cato.
To Heat. v.a. [from the noun.]
1. To make hot; to endue with the pow-er of burning.
He commanded that they should heat the fur-nace one seven times more than it was wont to beheated. Dan. iii. 19.
2. To cause to ferment.
Hops lying undried heats them, and changestheir colour. Mortimer.
3. To make the constitution feverish.
Thou art going to Lord Timon’s feast.
—Ay, to see meat fill knaves, and wine heat fools.
Shakesp.
Whatever increaseth the density of the blood,even without increasing its celerity, heats, hecausea denser body is hotter than a rarer. Arbuthnot.
4. To warm with vehemence of passion ordesire.
A noble emulation heats your breast,
And your own fame now robs you of your rest, i
Dryden. I
5. To agitate the blood and spirits with
' action.
When he was well heated the younger championcould not stand before him; and we find the eldercontended not for the gift, but for the honour.
Dryden.
He'ater. n. s. [from heat.] An ironmade hot, and put into a box-iron, tosmooth and plait linen.
HEATH, n. s. [erica, Lat.]
1. A shrub of low stature: the leaves aresmall, and abide green all the year.
, Miller.
In Kent they cut up the heath in May, burn it,and spread the ashes. Mortimer's Husbandry.
Oft with bolder wing they soaring dareThe purple heath. Thomsan.
2. A place overgrown with heath.
Say, from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why,
Upon this blasted neath you stop our wayW ith such prophetick greeting ? Shak. Macbeth.
Health and long life nave been found rather onthe peak of Derbyshire, and the heaths o( Stafford-shire , than fertile soils. Temple.
3. A plaoe covered with shrubs of what-ever kind.
Some woods of oranges, and heaths of rosemary,will smell a great way into the sea. Bacon .
Heathcock. n. s. [heath and cock.] Alarge fowl that frequents heaths.
Cornwall hath quail, rail, partridge, pheasant,heath-cock, and powte. Carew's Survey.
Heath-peas. n.s. A species of bitterVetch, which see.
Heath-pout. n.s. [heath and pout.] Abird.
Not heath-pout, or the rarer birdWhich Phasis or Ionia yields,
More pleasing morsels would affordThan the fat olives of my fields. Dryden.
Heath-rose. n. s. [/urtf/i and rose.] Aplant. Ainsworth.
HE'ATHEN. n. s. [he if den 3 Germ.] Thegentiles; the pagans; the nations un-acquainted with the covenant of grace.
Deliver us from the heathen, that we may givethanks to thy holy name. 1 Chron. xvi. 35.
If the opinions of others whom we think wellof, be a ground of assent, men bavc reason to beheathens in Japan , mahometans in Turkey, papistsin Spain , and proiestnnts in England. Locke.
In a paper of morality, I consider bow I mayrecommend the particular virtues I treat of, bythe precepts or examples of the ancient heathens.
Addison.
IIe'athen. udj. Gentile; pagan.
It was impossible for a heathen author to relatethese things, because, if lie had believed them, hewould no longer have been a heathen. Addison.
He'athenish. udj. [from heathen.]
1. Belonging to the Gentiles.
When the apostles of our Lord and Saviourwere ordained to alter the laws of heathenish reli-gion, chosen they were, St. Paul excepted ; therest unschooled altogether, and unlettered men.
Hooker.
2. Wild; savage; rapacious; cruel.
The Moors did tread under their heathenish feetwhatever little they found yet there standing.
Spenser.
That execrable Cromwell made a heathenish orrather inhuman edict against the episcopal clergy,that they should neither preach, pray in publick,baptize, marry, bury, nor teach school. South.
He'athenishly. adv. [from heathenish.]After the manner of heathens.
Hf/athentsm. n. s. [from heathen.]Gentilism; paganism.
It signifies the acknowledgment of the tru®God , in opposition to heathenism. Haninton
IIe'athy. adj. [from heath.] Full ofheatb*
This sort of land they order the same way 'V
the heathy land. Mortimer's Husband y
To HEAVE, v.a. pret. heaved, ancientlyhove; part, heaved, or haven.
1. To lift; to raise from the ground. ,
So stretch’d out huge in length the arch » e
lay,
Chain’d on the burning Jake; nor ever thenc ■Had ris’n, or heav'd his head, but that the wiAnd high permission of all-ruling heaven ^Left him at large. ^
2. To carry.
Now we bear the kingTow’rd Calais : grant him there ; and thereseen, # Ms
Heave him away upon your winged thougniAthwart the sea.
3. To raise; to lift.
So daunted, when the giant saw the king 11 ’
His heavy hand lie heaved up on high, f - te .And him to dust thought to have batter
I cannot heave shaktiP'
My heart into my mouth. 45
He dy’d in fight; , t
Fought next my person, as in consort L fSave when he heav'd his shield in my d[ tcAnd on Ins naked side receiv d my wound*
4. To cause to swell.
The groans of ghosts that cleave thepain,
And heave it up : they pant and stick ha| w£ ; -
The glittering finny swarms, g j i0 reS'
That heave our friths, and crowd upon ° U jy ilJ 7 /ijfl*'
5. To force up from the breast.
Made sue no verbal quest ? 0 f fath er
—Yes, once or twice she heav'd the namePantingly forth, as if it prest her heart-The wretched animal heav'd forth sU f^
That their discharge did stretch bis l ca j' Almost to bursting. Shakesp- A S V
6. To exalt; to elevate. ,
Poor shadow-painted queen-One heav'd on high, to be hurl’d down P
7- To puff; to elate.
The Scots, heaved up into high hop etook the English for foolish birds fan ® 1net, forsook their hill, and marched m t0
To Heave, v. n.
1. To pant; to breathe with p^ n *
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That creep like shadows by him, an a 0 u ^
At each nis needless heavings y such as j 5 /itf* ‘Nourish the cause of his awaking. . \QVpP* VHe heaves for breath, which, from m ^
And fetcli’d from far, distends his lab r *
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3. To rise with pain; to swell afl ^
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4, To keck; to feel a tended