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- English Word Heartwood Definition The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
- English Word Hearty Definition Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
- English Word Hearty Definition Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.
- English Word Hearty Definition Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.
- English Word Hearty Definition Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
- English Word Heartyhale Definition Good for the heart.
- English Word Heat Definition A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
- English Word Heat Definition The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.
- English Word Heat Definition High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.
- English Word Heat Definition Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.
- English Word Heat Definition A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
- English Word Heat Definition A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.
- English Word Heat Definition Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
- English Word Heat Definition Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.
- English Word Heat Definition Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
- English Word Heat Definition Sexual excitement in animals.
- English Word Heat Definition Fermentation.
- English Word Heat Definition To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
- English Word Heat Definition To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- English Word Heat Definition To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- English Word Heat Definition To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
- English Word Heat Definition To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.
- English Word Heat Definition Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
- English Word Heated Definition of Heat
- English Word Heater Definition One who, or that which, heats.
- English Word Heater Definition Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.
- English Word Heath Definition A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
- English Word Heath Definition Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
- English Word Heath Definition A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
- English Word Heathclad Definition Clad or crowned with heath.