v. t. [ imp. Heaved or Hove p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving. ] [ OE. heven, hebben, AS. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heben, Icel. hefja, Sw. häfva, Dan. hæve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. kw`ph handle. Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, Haft, Receipt. ] 1. To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. [ 1913 Webster ]

One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here a little child I stand,
Heaving up my either hand. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. [ 1913 Webster ]

The glittering, finny swarms
That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. --
To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. --
To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her. --
To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. --
To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly. --
To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). --
To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. --
To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. --
To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. --
To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. --
To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. --
To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heaving plain of ocean. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit. [ 1913 Webster ]

To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [ Obs. ] Fuller. --
To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. --
To heave up, to vomit. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

After many strains and heaves
He got up to his saddle eaves. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves,
You must translate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. heven, hefen, heofen, AS. heofon; akin to OS. hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gahamōn to put on, clothe one's self, G. hemd shirt, and perh. E. chemise. ] 1. The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never saw the heavens so dim by day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unto the God of love, high heaven's King. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this general sense heaven and its corresponding words in other languages have as various definite interpretations as there are phases of religious belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.; as, heaven helps those who help themselves. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. “A heaven of beauty.” Shak. “The brightest heaven of invention.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O bed! bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head! Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Heaven is very often used, esp. with participles, in forming compound words, most of which need no special explanation; as, heaven-appeasing, heaven-aspiring, heaven-begot, heaven-born, heaven-bred, heaven-conducted, heaven-descended, heaven-directed, heaven-exalted, heaven-given, heaven-guided, heaven-inflicted, heaven-inspired, heaven-instructed, heaven-kissing, heaven-loved, heaven-moving, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, heaven-warring, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Heavened p. pr. & vb. n. Heavening. ] To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We are happy as the bird whose nest
Is heavened in the hush of purple hills. G. Massey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render like heaven or fit for heaven. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Heavenly. ] The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. heofonic. ] 1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. [ 1913 Webster ]

As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

The love of heaven makes one heavenly. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. “She was heavenly true.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By the influence or agency of heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious. Milner. -- Heav"en*ly-mind`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. & adv. Toward heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Jewish Antiq.) An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A bar used as a lever. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ From 2d Heavy. ] 1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily. Ex. xiv. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Greatly; intensely; as, heavily involved in a plot; heavily invested in real estate. [ PJC ]

4. In large quantity; as, it rained heavily. [ PJC ]

n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. Addison. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Heavy; dull. [ Prov. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the heaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Heavier superl. Heaviest. ] [ OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. höfigr, höfugr. See Heave. ] 1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. 1 Sam. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sent hither to impart the heavy news. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heavy [ sorrowing ] nobles all in council were. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither [ is ] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. With child; pregnant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. --
Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. --
Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. --
Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. --
Heavy metals. (Chem.) See under Metal. --
Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Heavy is used in composition to form many words which need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make heavy. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mil.) Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clumsy; awkward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as ham-fisted.
Syn. -- bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. unjustly harsh or domineering; as, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies.
Syn. -- harsh, roughshod. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Dull; stupid. “Gross heavy-headed fellows.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. feeling or affected by sorrow or unhappiness.
Syn. -- blue, sad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. burdened by cares.
Syn. -- care-laden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bearing a heavy load; as, the heavy-laden trucks wore deep ruts in the unpaved road.
Syn. -- burdened, laden, weighed down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. obese. usually men are portly and women are stout
Syn. -- portly, stout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. heavy and compact in form or build or stature.
Syn. -- compact, stocky, thick, thickset. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Min.) Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. heaviest in a category; as, a heavyweight boxer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a very large person.
Syn. -- giant, hulk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. a person of exceptional importance and reputation.
Syn. -- colossus, behemoth, giant, titan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The midst or middle of heaven or the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to OD. schijve orb, disk, wheel, D. schiff, G. scheibe, Icel. skīfa a shaving, slice; cf. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a staff. Cf. Shift, v., Shive. ] A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sheave hole, a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Sheaf of straw. ] To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of straw. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. W. dafad a sheep, ewe. ] A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. [ Written also thave. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To heave or lift from below. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
See hardy.
See harmful.
See hasty.
See hazardous.
See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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n. The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]