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HAWSE. Sce HALSE,

HAY. Fr. Haye; Dut. Haeghe; A. S. Hag; hay-harvest.

(y softened into y) a hedge or haw, (qv.) Fr. Kayer; A. S. Heg-ian; Ger. Haeghen, sepire, to enclose, to surround.

That which hedgeth, encloseth, or surroundeth. A net, by which rabbits or other animals were enclosed, and thus caught, was also called a hay. See Minshew.

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The roser was withouten dout
Closed with an hedge without,
As ye to forne haue herd me saine,
And fast I besied and would faine

Haue passed the hay, if I might

Haue getten in.--Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

None of you all there is, that is so madde

To seke for grapes on brambles, or on bryers,

Nor none I trow, that hath a wit so badde,
To set his hay for conies ouer riuèrs.

Wyatt. The Meane and Sure Estate.

He whiche entendeth to take the fierse and mighty lyon pytcheth his haye or nette in the woode amonge greatte trees and thornes. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b.il. c.14.

And if it chaunced that they whipt off, or snapt any asunder, yet the steele and truncheon thereof being sharp still at the point (headlesse though it were) among the other pikes that were headed, served to make a fense as it were an haie or palaisade.-Holland. Livivs, p. 819.

Said commonly it is, that if a man do set an hedge or hay thereof round about a grange or ferme house in the countrey, there will no kites nor hawks, nor any such ravening birds of prey, come neare.-Id. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 1.

Sur. O, I looked for this.

The hay is a pitching.

B. Jonson. The Alchymist, Act ii. sc. 3.

While yet his busy hands, with skilful care,

The meshy hayes and forky props prepare.

HAY.

Rowe. Lucan, b. iv.

Goth. Haui; A. S. Heg, hig; Dut.
HAYING. Houwe, hauw; Ger. Heu; Sw. Hoe.
Casaubon, from Gr. Ela, gramen. Junius, says
Ihre, and a great number of followers, from the
Dut. Houwen; Ger. Hauen, secare, to cut. Quid
enim est fænum, nisi gramen sectum, (Wachter.)
A. S. Heawian, to hew, or cut.
Grass cut.

Vitaile inouh at weld, thei fond of corn and hay.

R. Brunne, p. 160.

Othr have an horne and be hayward and liggen out a
nyghtes. Piers Plouhman, p. 76.

And he comaundide to hem that thei schulden make alle
men sitte to mete by cumpanyes on grene hey.
Wiclif. Mark, c. 6.

For if ony bildith ouer this foundement gold, siluer, pre-
ciouse stoonys, stickis, hey or stobil eueri mannys werk
schal be open. Id. I Corynth. c. 3.

If onye man bylde on thys foundacion, golde, syluer, precious stones: tymbre, haye, or stobble: euery mannes worcke shall appeare.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Sil. Prethee content thyself, we shall scout here, as though we went a haying. Beaum. & Fletch. The Coxcombe, Act 1.

Whereby a man may see how manie bloudie quarels a bralling swashbuckler maie picke out of a bottle of haie, namelie when his braines are forebitten with a bottle of nappie ale.-Holinshed. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1528.

Or, if the carlier season lead,

To the tann'd haycock in the mead.-Milton. L'Allegro.

As soon as he knew one of them, he easily concluded in what condition they both were; and presently carried them into a little barn full of hay; which was a better lodging then he had for himself.

Clarendon. The Civil War, vol. iii. p. 414.

That Careless should presently be gone; and should within two days, send an honest man to the King, to guide him to some other place of security; and in the mean time his Majesty should stay upon the hay-mow. Id. Ib.

Mr. Douce observes on the passage cited below from Shakespeare, that the Hay was a dance borrowed from the French, and that it is classed among Brawls in the Orchesographie of Thomas Arbeau.

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There is not a single article of provision for man or beast, which enters that great city [Paris] and is not excised; corn, hay, meal, butcher's-meat, fish, fowls, every thing.

Burke. On a late State of the Nation,

HAY. To dance the hay, (says Skinner,) from the Fr. Hay, a hedge, (or hay,) in orbem ad figuram sepis choreas ducere; to dance in a circuit to the form or figure of a hedge or hay. (See HEYDIGYES.) The French have a dance which they call Olivettes, because performed after

Jen. No; we'll have "the hunting of the fox." Jack Slime. "The hay! the hay!" there's nothing like "the hay." Heywood. A Woman kill'd with Kindness.

Dull. I'le make one in a dance or so, or I will play on the taber to the worthies, and let them dance the hey.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 1.

HA'ZARD, v.
HA'ZARD, n.
HAZARDABLE.

HA'ZARDER.

HAZARDOUS.

HA'ZARDRY.

applied) is

Fr. Hazarde; It. Azarro, zara; Sp. Azar; Low Lat. Azardum. Menage, from the Lat. Tessara, q. d. tessara, tsara, zara, azara, azzardo.

To hazard (as commonly

To put or place at risk, (sc.) at risk of danger or loss; to risk, to expose to chance; to venture rashly; to game.

Her ydelnesse hem ssal brynge to synne lecherye,
To tauerne, and to sleuthe, and to hasarderyc.

R. Gloucester, p. 195.

Sendeth som other wise embassadours, For by my trouthe, me were lever die, Than I you shuld to hasardours allie.

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Ray says, It Hazes, it misles, or rains, small rain. Skinner,hazy weather, aer nebulosus et HA'ZINESS. caliginosus, a cloudy and gloomy atmosphere; and suggests the Ger. Hassen, to hate; from the disagrecableness of such weather. It is not improbably from the A. S. Has-ian, to be hoarse, (ther has not been intruded either into German, Dutch, or Swedish,) hoarse being ap. plied to the thickness of the voice, and haze, to the thickness of the atmosphere. To haze, then, will

mean,

To thicken, to become cloudy or gloomy; (sc.) threatening rain; to misle, to drizzle.

In the morning hazy weather frequently, and thick mists.
Dampier. Voyages, an. 1684.

But instead of encouraging us to trust ourselves to the haze and mists and doubtful lights of that changeable week, on the answerable part of the opposite page, he [Rider] gives us a salutary caution.

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 4.
Indeed the sky was, in general, so cloudy, and the wea.
Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,550. ther so thick and hazy, that he had very little benefit of sun

And whan he came, it happed him par chance,
That all the gretest that were of that land
Yplaying at hasard he hem found. Id. Ib. v. 12,542.

And now that I have spoke of glotonie,
Now wol I you defenden hasardrie,

Hasard is veray mother of lesinges, [lying.]

Id. Ib. v. 12,524.

Amongst whom there were a great many that did desire our generall to set them on land, making their choise rather to submit themselves to the mercie of the sauages or infidels, then longer to hazard themselues at sea.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 473,

At the first he was sore encountred, and put in great hasarde of repulse, but at length he vanquished and ouerthrew his enemies. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 17.

Lycurgus was in his nature hazardous, and by the lucky passing through many dangers, grown confident in himself. Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii.

Suspition of friend, nor feare of foe,

That hazardeth his health, had he at all,
But walkt at will, and wandred to and fro,
In the pride of his frecdome principall.

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HAZEL.) A.S. Hasl, hasl-nutu; Dut. HaHAZELLY. seler; Ger. Hasel; Sw. Hassel. Wachter, with less truth than ingenuity, in the opinion of Ihre, asserts that hazel is inet. the calyx of the nut, from A. S. Hasel, galerus, a hat: and that, from the calyx, the fruit and the tree receive their name. The A. S. Hasel, he

scems to consider as a derivative (or diminutive) of hat, a hat, (qv.)

Hazel, hazelly, (applied to colour, e. g. hazell mould, hazelly loam,) the colour of the hazel-nut, that is, brown, of a light brown.

A ring (qd. he) ye hazel wodes shaken.

As for other nuts, their meat is solide and compact, as we may see in filberds and hazels, which also are a kind of nut, and were called herctofore Abellinæ, of their native place, from whence came good ones at first.

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With hazel Phyllis crowns her flowing hair;

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And while she loves that common wreath to wear,

Nor bays, nor myrtle boughs, with hazle shall compare.

And

Dryden. Virgil, Past. 7.

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Dry sprigs of trees, in artful fabric laid And bound with clay together.

Of hazel, pendent o'er the plaintive stream,

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They frame the first foundation of their domes,

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He [Marvel] was of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish faced, cherry cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown haired. Grainger. Biographical History of England.

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Brown. Urnc-Buriall, c. 3.

Live, and alleagaunce owe
To him, that gives thee life and liberty;
And henceforth by this daies ensample trow,
That hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry,
Do breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

Perhaps thou lingrest in deep thoughts detain'd
Of the enterprize so hazardous and high.

Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iii.

These fight like husbands, but like lovers those:
These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy.
And to such height their frantick passion grows,
That what both love, both hazard to destroy.

Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, 1666.

And stretch their meshes on the light support Of hazel-plants, or dry thy lines of wire

In five-fold parallel; no danger then

That sheep invade thy foliage.

Mason. The English Garden, b. ll.

HE. Goth. Ha; A.S. He; Ger. Hee; Dut. Hy; Sw. Han. As the pronoun it (qv.) so he is, by our old writers, applied to the feminine and

Hence passionate and unreasonable men ignorantly call it neuter, as well as to the masculine, and to the where contempted their lives in their own private quarrels; plural as well as to the singular. He is no doubt

from a similar, if not from the same, source with laardedol. 1. Ser. 51 written,) and had, as it had, one uniform meaning, warranting the usages to which it has been ap

of danger is, on contrary, neither sonable nor just; because, neither is the danger at all need

ful to be run into, nor is the benefit proposed to be anned it, or hit, or het, (for so was the word anciently by it, in any manner equal to the evil hazarded.

I would plead a little merit, and some hazards of my life plied. Tooke has shown it, the, and that to have fered the common enemies; my refusing advantages of such uniform meanings; and from the principle he has established, a necessary consequence is King's service; but I only think I merit not to starve. Dryden. To the Earl of Rochester, that the other pronouns had one also. The and

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that he contends to be parts of the same word, the
A.S. The-an, to the, to get, to take, to assume;
the first being the imperative, the second the past
part. of that verb. It, or hit, or het, he considers
to be the past part. of the A. S. Hat-an, nominare,
and to mean, nominatum, the said; a meaning
perfectly corresponding with every use of the word
it in our language. A conjecture, at least, may
be admitted, that he may have been formed from
some part of the same word, as their application
and usage were precisely the same, and the diffe-
rence between them now is no more than what
arises from their being restricted grammatically,
he to words masculine, and it to words neuter.
Mr. Tyrwhitt has noticed some of the (to modern
ears) peculiar usages of he; - that it is frequently
used in all its cases for it.

From South to North he [it, viz. England) ys long eigte
hondred myle.

R. Gloucester, p. 1.
Wateres he [it] hath eke gode ynow. Id. p. 2.

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Nor second he, that rode sublime

Upon the seraph wings of ecstasy,
The secrets of the abyss to spy.

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time:
The living throne, the sapphire-blaze,
Where angels tremble while they gaze,
He saw; but blasted with excess of light
Clos'd his eyes in endless night.

HEAD, v.
HEAD, n.
HEADER.

HEADFUL.

HEADLESS.

HEADLONG.

HE/ADY.

HE/ADINESS.

Gray. The Progress of Poetry.

Goth. Haubith; A.S. Heafod, hoofod, heafud, heafd; Dut. Hoofd; Ger. Haufet; Sw. Hufwud. Junius derives from the Gr. Κεφαλη. Wachter derives the Ger. Haubt, pars hominis sublimis, from the verb heben, levare, erigere, tollere in altum. Ihre,

HEADSHIP. the Sw. Hufwud, from haf, high;
hæfwa, to raise on high. Tooke, -head is heaved,
heav'd, the past part. of the verb to heave, (as
the A. S. Heaf-od was the past part. of heaf-an,)
meaning,-

That part (of the body, or any thing else) which
The see goth hym [Engelond] al a boute, he stont as an yle. is heav'd, raised, or lifted up, above the rest.
It
Id. p. 1.

First lord he (Bruyt] was in Engolond, of wham me
speketh get.
Id. p. 11.

And nuste wat folk it was, to hem he sende hys sonde,
To wyte, wether he [they] wolde pes, other heo nolde non.
Id. p. 16.

& fro thien he went into the courte of Rome,
For to take his penance & of his synnes dome.
Whan he was asoyled of the pape Sergie,
He died & was biried in Rome solemplie.

R. Brunne, p. 1.

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Piers Plouhman, p. 7.

And he seide to hem come ye after me, and I schal make ye to be maad fisheris of men. And anoon thei leften the nettis and sueden hym. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 4.

At every cours in came loude minstralcie

That never Joab tromped for to here,

Ne he Theodomas yet half so clere

At Thebes, whan the citee was in doute.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9594.

For every labour somtime moste han reste,

Or elles longe may he [it] not endure.

For all reason wolde this,

'That unto him, whiche the head is

The membres buxome shall bowe,

And he shulde eke their trouthe alowe

With all his herte.

Id. Ib. v. 9737.

Gower. Con. A. Prol.

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was anciently written heved. Sce HEAVE.

It is used emphatically, as being the chief or principal part, for the whole body or person; also, for the contents of the head; (sc.) the brains, the powers of the mind, the thoughts; consequentially,

The chief or principal person or thing, the leader, guider, director, commander; the leading, guiding, directing, or commanding place or station; the highest place, the first place, forepart, front, height. To head is,

To lead, guide, direct, or command; to make
head, to keep head forward, to front or face, (to
affront or confront) to advance. To gather
head,-

To gather means to make head; force or power
to front, or face, or advance. To give head,-
To give up the restraint upon the head; to give
liberty to advance at speed. To head is also-
To behead; i. e. to take off, cut off, strike off,
the head. To head up; to put on the head, (sc.)

of a cask or vessel.

Headlong; (anciently also written headling;) head forwards; (sc.) without care or caution, precipitate; heedless.

Head-strong, consequentially, resolute, self-willed, obstinate.

Heady, heedless, giddy, precipitate; rash, violent;-acting upon the head, causing giddiness, dizziness, stupor.

Head, i. e. chief, principal; is much used-
prefixed.

Corineus was tho somdel wroth, ys axe on hey he drow
And smot hym vpon the hed mid god ernest y now,
And for clef al that hed, & the bodi a non to grounde.
R. Gloucester, p. 17.
Heo sleth & destruyeth al, that ther nys nothing bi leued,
Warbi men mow libbe, & al for defaut of heued.
Id. p. 101.

Sebrygt and the kyng of Kent, tho al thys was y do,
At Londone of Seyn Poul an heued chyrche gonne rere.
Id. p. 232.

I rede we chese a hede, that us to werre kan dight
& to that ilk heae I rede we us bynd
For werre withouten hede is not well, we fynde.

Id. Id.

Ion said, thei suld hedeles hop.

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For ich am hefd of lawe

R. Brunne, p. 2.
Id. p. 211.

And ge ben bote menbrys.-Piers Ploukman, p. 391,

And Jhesus seide to him, foxis han dennes, and briddis of heyene han nestis; but mannes sone hath not where he schal reste his hed.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 8.

And Jesus said unto him the foxes haue holes, and the byrdes of the ayer haue nestes, but the sonne of man hath not where on to rest his heed.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And he seid to hem, go ye; and thei geden ont and wenten into the swyn, and lo in a gret bire al the drove wente heedlyng in to the see; and thei weren dede in the watris. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 7.

And he said vnto them, go your waies: Then went they out, and departed into the heerd of swyne. And beholde the whole heerd of swyne was caried with violence hedlyng Pope. Enistle to the Earl of Oxford. into the sea, and peryshed in the water. Bible, 1551. Ib.

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Boniface the thyrd of that name bishop of Rome, toke vpon hym to be the head bishop of all the worlde, and God's only vycar in earthe.-Bale. Image, pt. i.

And as for their headinesse, see whether they be not prone,
bold and runne heading into al mischief, without pitie &
compassion or caryng what misery and destruction should
fulfilled. Tyndall. Works, p. 290.
fall on other men, so they may have their present pleasure

Here Mercury with equal shining winges
First touched; and with body headling bette [bent]
To the water thenne took he his descent.

Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv.

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Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 45.

They have compelled him to lay his hand upon the helme. for to set all streight and upright againe in security, rejecting in the meane while green headed generals of armies, eloquent oratours also.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 521.

Who, thrusting boldly twixt him and the blow,
The burthen of the deadly brunt did beare
Upon his shield, which lightly he did throw
Over his head, before the harme came neare.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, v. iv. c. 8.

He was ten thousand foot and a thousand horse strong, and had five and thirtie tall ships of war, headed with brasen pikes before.-Holland. Livivs, p. 717.

And this is the onely cause why all the statues and images of him [Pericles] almost, are made with a helmet on his head; because the workmen, as it should seem, (and so it is most likely) were willing to hide the blemish of his deformity. But the Attican Poets did call him Schinocephalos, as much as to say, headed like an onion.

North. Plutarch, p. 133.

England endured (by God's just iudgements) many bitter and heauie stormes through some headinesse, ambition, or other sicknesses of minde in the princes thereof. Speed. Edw. II. an. 1308. b. ix. c. 11. s. 1. Oh, monstrous! Why I'll undertake, with a handful of silver, to buy a headful of wit at any time. Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act i. sc. 2.

Sir George Ascough, with nine of his head-most ships,
charged through the Dutch fleet, and got the weather-gage
of them, and charged them again.
Baker. Charles II. an. 1652,

But Timias him lightly overhent,
Right as he entring was into the flood,
And strooke at him with force so violent,
That headlesse him into the foord he sent.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ill. c. 5,

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Strook them with horror backward, but far worse
Urg'd them behind; headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of heav'n.-Id. Ib. b. vi.

Now they began much more to take stomacke and indig-
nation, in case that after Tarquinius, the kingdome should
not returne to them and their line, but should still run on
end, and headlongwise fall unto such base varlets.
Holland. Livius, p. 29,

Will the ministerial headship inferr any more, then that when the church in a community or a publick capacity should do any act of ministery ecclesiasticall he shall befirst in order?-Bp. Taylor, Liberty of Prophesying, 5, 7.

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Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act v.

Such was the furie of these head-strong steeds,
Soon as the infant's sunlike shield they saw,
That all obedience both to words and deeds
They quite forgot, and seorn'd all former law.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 8.

The other party I headed myself.

Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. 1. p. 119.

Though if that assertion could be supposed to be true, yet even still 'twould unavoidably follow, that the self-existent being inust needs be intelligent; as shall be proved in my fourth argument upon this present head. Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 8. True religion requires both a warm heart and a cool head; good service in his function. Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 377.

And Henry Lord Stafford, to shew his compliance with these times, translated two Epistles of Erasmus, wherein was undertaken to be shown the brain-sick headiness of the Lutherans. Strype. Memorials. Queen Mary, an. 1554.

It is also very necessary for preserving the unity and communion of the parts of the catholic church; seeing single persons are much fitter to maintain correspondence, than headless bodies. - Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 24.

And though St. Peter had been head of the apostles, yet as it is not certain that he was ever in Rome, so it does not appear that he had his headship for Rome's sake, or that he left it there but he was made head for his faith, and not for the dignity of any see.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1534.
Here on pois'd pinions stoop'd the panting God;
Then, from the steep, shot headlong to the flood.

Pitt. Virgil. Æneid, b. iv.

If there was any found to be in the least tainted, as sometimes happened, it was separated from the rest, which was repacked into another cask, headed up, and filled with good pickle. Cook. Socond Voyage, b. iii. c. 8.

A reform proposed by an unsupported Individual, in the presence of heads of houses, public officers, doctors, and proctors, whose peculiar province, it would have been urged, is to consult for the academic state, would have been deemed even more officious and arrogant than a public appeal.

Knox. Liberal Education.

When now Gradasso on the field display'd
The headless trunk of Agramant survey'd,
(What ne'er till then befel) a sudden dread
Benumo'd his veins, his shifting colour fled.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xlii.

What slave so passive, what bigot so blind, what enthu-
siast so headlong, what politician so hardened, as to stand
up in defence of a system calculated for a curse to mankind.
Burke. Vindication of Natural Society.
Both ways deceitful is the wine of Power,
When new, 'tis heady, and, when old, 'tis sour.

HEAL, or

HELE, v.

HEAL, N.

HE'ALER.

HEALING, n.
HEALTH.

HEALTHFUL.
HEALTHFULLY.

HEALTHFULNESS. HEALTHLESS.

HEALTHLESSNESS.

HEALTHSOME.

HEALTHY.

HEALTHILY.

HEALTHINESS.

Harte. The Charitable Mason.

Goth. Hailyan; A. S.
Hælan, Dut. Heclen; Ger.
Heylen; Sw. Hela, sanare,
integrare, to make sound
or whole; perhaps, says
Skinner, from A. S. Helan,
tegere, to cover; quia
(sc.) quæ a chirurgis sa-
nantur cicatrice claudun-

tur et obteguntur; be-
cause (wounds) healed by
the surgeon are closed

and covered by a scar.
And health (Tooke) is the

third pers. sing. of the

verb to hele or heal, meaning

"That which healeth, or maketh one to be hale
or whole." To heal,-

To cover; to be or caused to be whole or
sound; to close up, to cure, to recover.
HILL.

See To

Heal, or hele, is used as a noun by Chaucer,
Gower, &c.

The kyng hoped wel to hym, and lette hym helie faste.

And nom with hym spicery, that to fysik drow,
And wende hym to Wynchestre quoyntoliche y now,
And seyde the kynge's that he wold hym to hele brynge.
Id. p. 151.

Tho ilk fiue sorowes he calles fiue woundes,

That ere not git haled, ne salle be many stoundes.

R. Brunne, p. 7.

- Menye of the bryddes
Hudden and heleden. durnelyche here egges
For no foul sholde hem fynde.-Piers Plouhman, p.223.
In an hote hervest. wenne ich hadde myn hele.
And lymes to labore with.

Id. p. 75.

Zut hit [poverty] is moder of mygth. and of mannes helth.
Id. p. 270.

And Jhesus seide to the centurien go, and as thou hast bileeved so be it doon to thee, and the child was heelid fro that our. Wiclif. Matt. c. 8.

R. Gloucester, p. 151.

Then Jesus said vnto the centurion, go thy waye, and as thou beleuest so be it vnto the. And his seruaunt was healed the selfe houre. Bible, 1551. Ib.

Whethir alle men han grace of heelyngis.

Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 12. Bible, 1551. Ib.

Haue all the gyftes of healynge?
To a nothir grace of heelthis in oo spirit. Wiclif. Ib.
Parde we women connen nothing hele,
Witnesse on Mida; wol ye here the tale.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6532.

And fell in speche of Telephus the king,
And of Achilles for his queint spere,
For he coude with it bothe hele and dere.

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We ought, in the choice of a situation, to regard above all things the healthfulness of the place, and the healthfulness of it for the mind, rather than for the body.-Cowley, Ess. 8. If men would imitate the early rising of this bird [the lark], it would conduce much unto their healthfulness. Fuller. Worthies. Bedfordshire.

It seemed a strange thing to Anarcharsis, the Scythian as Laertius observes to see the Greeks drink in small cruzes at the beginning of their feasts, and in large bowls at the latter end; (an order ill imitated by the lavish Healthists of our time) as if they intended not satisfaction, and refreshing of nature, but wilfull excesse.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. 1. s. 7.

And yet after all this, sickness leaves in us appetites so strong, and apprehensions so sensible, and delights so many, and good things in so great a degree, that a healthless body but still they would fain find an excuse to live. and a sad disease do seldom make men weary of this world,

Bp. Taylor. Holy Dying, c. 3. 8. 3.

It [fasting] is the best in many respects, and remains such, unless it be altered by the inconveniences or health lesness of the person.-Id. Rule of Cons. b. ii. c. 3. Rule 8.

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There is such a certain healthlesness in many things to all, and in all things to some men and at some times, that to supply a need is to bring a danger.

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But Vane opposed this with much zeal: he said, would they heal the wound that they had given themselves, which weakened them so much? The setting them at quiet could have no other effect, but to heal and unite them in their opposition to their authority.--Burnet. Own Time, vol. I. b. i.

Bp. Hull, b. fil. Sat. 3.

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Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,554.

And songen with o voice, heale and honour
To trouth of womanhede.

Id. The Legende of Gode Women, Prol.

Cupides sonn, ensample of goodlihede,
O swerde of knighthode, sours of gentilnesse,
How might a wight in turment and in drede
And healelesse you send as yet gladnesse.

The great clerkes were assent,
And come at his commaundement
To trete vpon this lordes hele.

Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

For the covering of houses there are three sorts of slate, which from that use take the name of Healing-stones.

Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, fol. 6.

Y am he that sche gaf the rynge,
For to be oure tokenynge,
Now heyle hyt for the rode.

The Erle of Tolous. Ritson, vol. iii. p. 136.

But the healinge agayn of this mortal wounde is like to mar all, and make the last errour worse than the first. Bale. Image, pt. ii.

The egall frend; no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule, nor governaunce
Without disease, the healthful life;
The household of continuance.

Surrey. The Meanes to attaine Happy Life.

Their dinners be very short; but their suppers be somewhat longer, because that after dinner followeth labour; after supper, sleep and natural rest; which they think to be of more strength and efficacy to wholesome and healthful digestion. More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. ii. c. 5.

And they are suche, as asscrybe al their perfightness, vertue, and godlynes, not unto their owne workes, nor yet vnto their owne fulfyllyng of the lawe, wherein they must nedes knowledge themselues gyltye and synful: but all together vnto the merites of the healthsome passion of Christ.

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Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 271.

Where when she came, she found the faery knight
Departed thence; albee (his woundes wyde
Not throughly heal'd) unready were to ryde.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5.

Plantaine is a great healer of any sore whatsoever, but principally of such ulcers as bee in the bodies of women, children, and old folke.-Holland. Plinic, b. xxvi. c. 14.

To heal, to cover, Sus. Hence in the west, he that covers a house with slates, is called a healer or hellier.

Ray. South and East Country Words.

There Alma, like a virgin queene most bright,

Doth florish in all beautie excellent;

And to her guestes doth bounteous banket dight,

Attempred goodly well for health and for delight.

And truely as the bodily meate cannot feed the outward man, unlesse it be let into a stomacke to be digested, which is healthsome and sound; no more can the inward man be fed except his meate be received into his soule, and heart, sound and whole in fayth.

Ah Sylvial thus in vain you strive

To act a healer's part,

'Twill keep but ling'ring pain alive,

Alas! and break my heart. Otway. The Complaint.

Oh, fool! to think God hates the worthy mind,
The lover and the love of human kind,
Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear,
Because he wants a thousand pounds a year.

Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 5.

In the latter end of the month of July, I find our archbishop at his house at Bokesbour, near Canterbury, a place of retirement, healthfully and pleasantly seated, which he took a great deal of delight in.

Strype. Life of Parker, an. 1653.

That learned author, who writ Historiam Naturalem Brasilia, to prove not only the habitableness, but healthfulness, of that climate and country, exhibits the account of every day's weather, observed by him for many years together, and so the agreement of it to that temper which we account healthful. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 643.

He [Charles of Sweden] is of a very vigorous and healthy constitution, takes a pleasure in enduring the greatest fatigues, and is little curious about his repose.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1709.

I must now observe that all these advantages were greatly [Tinian] and by the enhanced by the healthiness of its climate, by the almost frestant breezes which prevail there, fin. b. iil. c. 2. If by his stripes we are healed, we may surely avoid censorious quarrels about the particular manner in which the effect is produced. Cogan. Theol. Disq. pt. ii. s. 2.

Among the innumerable follies by which we lay up in our youth repentance and remorse for the succeeding part of lives, there is scarce any against which warnings are of less efficacy than the neglect of health.Rambler, No. 48.

Begin the song, and let it sweetly flow,

And let it wisely teach thy wholesome laws:
"How blest, the fickle fabric to support
Of mortal man; in healthful body how
A healthful mind the longest to maintain."

Armstrong. Of Preserving Health, b. i

A few cheerful companions in our walks will render them abundantly more healthful: for, according to the ancient adage, they will serve instead of a carriage, or in other

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11. words, prevent the sensation of fatigue.

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-Reuthe hit is to huyre.

Piers Plouhman, p. 261.
And we witen that God herith not synful men: but if ony
be a worschipere of God, and doith his wille, he herith him.
Wiclif. Jon, c. 9.

For we be sure that God heareth not synners. But yf any
man be a worshipper of God and do his wyl, him heareth he.
Bible, 1551. Ib.

For if ony man is an heerer of the word, and not a doer, this schal be lickened to a man that biholdetli the cheer of his birthe in a myrrour.-Wiclif. James, c. 1.

And treuli thei schulen turne awei the heeryng fro treuthe,

raise up, (Junius and Wachter.)
To throw up, to lay up, in heaps, or raised and but to fablis thei schulen turne.-Id. 2 Timothy, c. 4.
elevated masses; to accumulate, to pile.

An hep of eremites. henten hem spades.

Piers Plouhman, p. 137.

Now is not that of God a ful fayre grace,
That swiche a lewed mannes wit shall pace
The wisdom of an hepe of lered men?

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 577.

Fortune heaped together that one day the chaunces of a whole world.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 100.

And so all these gentylmen strangers with them of the country assembled togyder, and dyd sette on these people wher they might fynde the, and slewe and hanged them vpon trees by heapes.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 183.

And thou beeing fallen in despayre of thy selfe, doest thou neither addresse to hang thyself as Judas did, or els art thou an heaper of sinnes vpo sinnes. - Udal. Luke, c. 23.

That geauntesse Argantè is behight,

A daughter of the Titans which did make
Warre against Heven, and heaped hils on hight
To scale the skyes and put Jove from his right.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 7.

The lists were closed fast, to barre the rout
From rudely pressing on the middle center;
Which in great heapes them circled all about,
Wayting how fortune would resolve that dangerous dout.
Id. Id. b. v. c. 5.
Sandius has gone yet much farther; labouring to heap up
all the scandal that was possible against this council.
Nelson. Life of Bull.

1 have seen two volumes in folio, written with his own hand [Cranmer.) containing upon all the heads of religion, a vast heap both of places of scripture, and quotations out of ancient fathers, and later doctours and schoolmen.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1534.

Thyr. With heapy fires our cheerful hearth is crown'd;
And firs for torches in the woods abound.
Dryden. Virgil, Past. 7.

Where'er the weaker banks opprest retreat,
And sink beneath the heapy waters' weight,
Forth gushing at the breach, they burst their way,.
And wasteful o'er the drowned country stray.

Rowe. Lucan, b. vi.

The whole performance is not so much a regular fabrick, as a heap of shining materials thrown together by accident, which strikes rather with the solemn magnificence of a stupendous ruin, than the elegant grandeur of a finished pile. Johnson. The Life of Savage.

And with that word we riden forth our way;
And he began with right a mery chere
His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 860..

And yet he geueth almesse,

And fasteth ofte, an hereth inesse. Gower. Con. A. b. i. They by a vertue inexplicable, do drawe vpon them the myndes and consent of the herers, being therwith eyther persuaded, meued, or to delectation induced.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 13.
We may note heere, that a preacher may speake by heare-
say; as St. Paul doth here. I speake unto you since I came
into this country by hearesay. For I heard say that there
were some homely theeves, some pickers in this worshipful
house. Latimer. Ser. on the Gospel on St. Andrewe's Day.

John. I will lay oddes, that ere this yeare expire,
We beare our ciuill swords, and natiue fire
As farre as France. I heare a bird so sing,
Whose musicke (to my thinking) pleas'd the king.

Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Henry IV. Act v. ec. 5.

Hence it is, that I now render my selfe gratefull, and am studious to justifie the bounty of your act: to which, though your mere authority were satisfying, yet, it being an age, wherein poetry, and the professors of it, heare so ill, on all sides, there will a reason be lookt for in the subject.

B. Jonson. The Fox, Dedication.

They are these make mee heare so ill, both in towne and first shall leave 'hem. Id. Masques. Love restored. countrey, as I doe; which, if they continue, I shall be the

It is enough that I in silence sit,

And bend my skill to learne your layes aright;
Nor strive with you in ready straines of wit,
Nor move my hearers with so true delight.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3.

It hath been anciently held, and observed, that the sense
of hearing, and the kinds of musick, have most operation
upon manners: as to incourage men, and make them war-
like; to make them soft and effeminate; to make them
grave; to make them light; to make them gentle and
inclin'd to pity, &c. The cause is, for that the sense of
hearing striketh the spirits more immediately than the other
senses.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 114.

Hear, all ye Trojans, all ye Grecian bands!
What Paris, author of the war, demands.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. ill.

and successful, because plain, natural, and familiar, and by
In a word, the apostles' preaching was therefore mighty
no means above the capacity of their hearers; nothing being
more preposterous, than for those, who were professedly
aiming at men's hearts, to miss the mark by shooting over
their heads.-South, vol. v. Ser. 11.

Who can assure himself or any one else, upon his own

In the text to God does particularly signify, to trust and
rely upon his providence for our life and support, in oppo-
sition to relying on treasures of our own heaping up, or large personal sight, hearing, or the report of any other of his
barns of our own building and filling.

HEAR, v.

HE'ARER.

HE'ARING, n.
HE/ARSAY.

}

Sherlock, vol. 1. Dis. 29.

The verb to hear (differing
from the noun ear, only in the
aspirate) is, in the Goth. Haus-
jan: A. S. Hyr-an; Ger. Horen;

Dut. Hoor-en; Sw. Hoera; Fr. Ouir; Sp. Oyr;
It. Udire; Lat. Audire. See EAR.

To have or receive feelings or sensations by the ear; to feel or be sensible of sounds; consequentially, to use the ear, to hearken, to listen, to attend to sounds made, to what is spoken.

To hear ill or well, (B. Jonson,) like the Latin Malé aut benè audire, and the Gr. Εν ή κακως ακούειν, to hear a good or ill character of themselves, to have a good or bad character, to be well or ill spoken of.

To hym he wende hastelyche, and by the wey ywys
He hurde angles synge an hey by the lyste thys:
"The kyng Edred nou aslepe in oure Louerd ys."

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senses, that the whole matter of a dissolved body passes
successively into other living bodies?-Id. vol. iv. Ser. 6.

He [Thomas] would not (it seems) take a miracle upon
hearsay, nor resolve his creed into report, nor in a word see
with any eyes but his own. Id. vol. v. Ser. 4.

The eye is not that which sees; it is only the organ by which we see. The ear is not that which hears; but the organ by which we hear; and so of the rest.

Reid. On the Intellectual, Ess. 2. c. 1.

But Oronthea, with a mother's love,
Reply'd, and every hearer's mind to move,
Such reasons urg'd, that most, with one consent,
Their suffrage yielded for the queen's content.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xx.

In some cases, (as in proof of any general customs, or mat-
hearsay evidence, or an account of what persons deceased
ters of common tradition or repute) the courts admit of
have declared in their life-time.
Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 23.
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HEA

My good sonne it shall be do

Now herken and lay an eare to. Gower. Con. A. b. L.

herkned not vnto Moses, for anguyshe of sprete and for And Moses told the children of Israel euen so: but they cruell bondage. Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 6.

Now they are not onely ydle, but also babling tale-tellers & curious herkeners. Udat. Timothye, c. 5.

Almyghte God that made mankyn,
He schilde his servandes out of syn,

And maynteyne tham, with might and mayne,

That herkens Ywayne and Gawayne.

Rilson. Metrical Romances, vol. 1. p. 1.

Thence, forth she past into his dreadfull den,

Where nought but darksome dreriness she found,

Ne creature saw, but harkned now and then

Some little whispering and soft groning sound.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7.

A prince when wrong'd should not vile traitours wooe,
But when entreated (hearkning to their cares)
Is (if he graunt of grace that they may live)
Milde if he doe forgive, just not to give.

Stirling. Domes-day. The sixth Houre.

Cle. Yes, why thou art a stranger, it seemes, to his best trick, yet He has imployd a fellow this halfe yere, all over England, to harken him out a dumbe woman.

B. Jonson. The Silent Woman, Act 1. so. 2.

Sur. Must I needs cheat my selfe,
With that same foolish vice of honestie?
Come let us goe, and harken out the rogues.

Id. The Alchymist, Aet v. sc. 6.

But here she comes; I fairly step aside
And hearken, if I may, her business.-Milton. Comus.

Being by custom captivated and enslaved to sin, they are resolved beforehand not to hearken to any thing, that will oblige them to forsake their accustomed vices.

Clarke, vol. viii. Ser. 8.

We should contemplate with care every dispensation of providence, that may warn us against so fatal a mistake, (seeking our happiness where God hath not placed it) and hearken diligently to the voice, which God liath appointed that every thing on earth shall cry aloud to us: Arise ye, and depart: for this is not your rest. Secker, vol. v. Ser. 3.

HEARSE, v. Hearse, in Tooke's opinion, HEARSE, n. Sis the past part. of the A. S. verb Hyrstan, ornare, phalerare, decorare. At present only applied to

"An ornamented carriage for a corpse," formerly, as Minshew says, a monument or emptie tombe erected or set up at the moneth's or yeere's end, for the honourable memorie of the dead. Cockeram and Bullokar call it, a burial coffin, covered with black. To hearse,

To lay, to bury, in a hearse; generally, to bury.
Adowne I fel, whan I saw the herse,
Dead as a stone.

Chaucer. How Pilie is dead.

What should I more hereof reherse
Comen within, come see her herse,
Where ye shall see the piteous sight

That euer yet was shewed to knight. Id. Dreame.

For whome, Phrahartes made a royal herse, & dyd exe quies after the maner of Prynces. Goldyng. Justins, fol. 149.

- Oh, answer me,

Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canoniz'd bones hearsed in death,

Haue burst their cerements. Shakes. Hamlet, Act 1. sc.4.

I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the lewels in her eare; would she were hearst at my foote, and the duckets in her coffin.-Id. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc.1.

The house is hers'd about with a black wood,
Which nods with many a heavy headed tree:
Each flowers a pregnant poison, try'd and good.

Crashaw. Steps to the Temple.

When she with flowres lord Arnold's grave shall strew,
And hears why Hugo's life was thrown away,

She on that rival's hearse will drop a few;
Which merits all that April gives to May.

Davenant. Gondibert, b. 1. c. 5

And some flowers, and some bays,
For thy herse, to strow the ways,
Sent thee from the banks of Came,
Devoted to thy virtuous name.

Milton. Epistle on the Marchioness of Winchester,

Or were you enamoured on his copper rings?
His saffron jewell, with the toadstone in't?
Or his imbroydered sute, with the cope-stitch,
Made of a herse-cloth? B. Jonson. The Fox, Actii. sc. 5.

Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's

harpe, you shall hear as many herselyke ayres as carols. Bacon. Ess. On Adversitie.

HEA

Oh I might I paint him in Miltonian verse,
With strains like those he sung on Glo'ster's herse;
But with the meaner tribe I'm fore'd to chime,
And wanting strength to rise, descend to rhyme.

Smith. To the Memory of Mr. John Philips.

There was an herse after the fashion of Spain, with black, and a goodly mass of requiem; the chapel wherein he was enterred hung with black, with a banner of arms, and coat of arms, all in gold; a target and an helmet, and many escutcheons, and a fair herse-cloth of black, and a cross of crimson velvet down to the ground.

Strype. Memorials. Q. Mary, an. 1554.
Churchill. Epistle to Hogarth.

Worth may be hears'd but Envy cannot die.

A dream is nothing without the completion; Lodge died at Leeds; but as the herse passed by Harwood, the carriage broke, the coffin was damaged, and the dream happily fulfriled, the corpse being interred in the choir there, August 27, 1689.-Walpole. Catalogue of Engravers, vol. v.

HEART, v.

HEART, n.

HE/ARTEN.

HEARTENER.

HEARTLESS.

HEARTLESSNESS.
HEARTEDNESS.
HE/ARTY.

HEARTILY.
HE/ARTINESS.

Goth. Hairto; A. S. Heorte; Ger. Herz; Dut. Ilert; Sw. Hierta. Stiernhelmius (says Wachter) deduces all from the Swedish verb Hyra, (or horra, or hurra,) movere, to move; (to hurry;) on account of the perpetual motion and agitation of the heart. Wachter adds, that he finds no such root apud Saxones et Francos. (See Wachter in vv. Herz, and Horen, agere.) Junius tells us, some think that heart is derived from herd, i. e. hard, durus, because we owe the duration of life to the continued motion of the heart. Wachter remarks, that the Gr. Ητορ, and the A. S. Heorte, are by metathesis interchangeable. Heart, the noun, is applied to

HE'ARTIST.

The seat or source of the passions, feelings, thoughts, affections; to these themselves; to the being in whom they exist; to the vital part;vitality, life, spirit, courage, strength; to the central, or chief, or principal part; the seat or source of good and ill. To heart, or hearten, isTo encourage, to animate, to invigorate; to give or add life, spirit, courage, strength.

Hearted, seated, deeply fixed, stored, treasured in the heart.

Heart is much used-prefixed.

Kyng Locryne's herte was al clene vp hire y went,
And tok hire forth with hym mid gret honour y nowg,
And thogte hire to spouse, so ys herte to hire drog.

R. Gloucester, p. 24.

Ae the love and leautte ys: hit lyketh nat here hertes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 65.

He is lowe as a lombe. and loveliche of speche
And helpeth herteliche. alle men of that he may aspare.
Id. p. 170.

Ye generacioun of eddris : hou moun ye speke gode thingis whanne ye ben yvele? for the mouth spekith of plentee of the herte. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 12.

generacio of vipers, how can you say well, when ye your selues are euel? For of the aboudaunce of ye hert, the mouth speaketh.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

For many a man so hard is of herte,

He may not wepe although him sore smerte.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 229.

Avoy (quod she) sy on you herteles.

HEA

I haue told thee often, and I retell thee againe, and againe,
I hate the Moore. My cause is hearted, thine hath no lesse
reason.-Shakespeare. Othello, Acti. sc. 3.

Arise blacke vengeance, from the hollow hell
Yield vp (O Loue) thy crowne, and hearted throne
Id. Ib. Act iii. sc. 3.
To tyrannous Hate.

Gor. Down with him low enough, there let him murmur,
And see his diet be so light and little,
He grow not thus high hearted on't.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Island Princess, Act ii.

Ye gentle ladies, in whose soveraine powre
Love hath the glory of his kingdome left,
And th' hearts of men, as your eternall dowre,
In yron chaines, of liberty bereft,
Delivered hath unto your hands by gift.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8.

Rise therefore with all speed and come along,
Where I shall see thee heartn'd and fresh clad
To appear as fits before th' illustrious lords.

Milton. Samson Agonistes.

Till, seeing them through suffrance hartned more,
Himselfe he bent their furies to abate.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10.

But as a coward's hari'ner in warre,
The stirring drumme, keepes lesser noise from farre,
So seeme the murmuring waves tell in mine eare,
That guiltlesse bloud was never spilled there.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 1.

Is there

Ever a good heartist, or a member-percer, or a
Small-gut man left in the town, answer

Me that? Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrimage, Act iv.

I wont to raunge amid the mazie thicket,
And gather nuttes to make my Christmas-game,
And ioyed oft to chace the trembling pricket,

Or hunt the hartlesse hare till she were tame.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. December. How many worthy Christians are there in the world who bear a part with us in this just blame: who have yeelded

over themselves to a disconsolate heartlessnesse, and sad

If euer man for heartie loue
Deserued honest meede,
Erickmon might beleeue himselfe

dejection of spirit.-Bp. Hall. Christ Mystical, pt. i. § 10.

To be belou'd indeede.

Warner. Albion's England, b. vii. c. 36.

Where leisurely dofsing a hat worth a tester,
He bade me most heartily welcome to Chester.

Cotton. Voyage to Ireland, c. 2.

An authority enabling princes to put them to death who
are accused of accidental and consecutive blasphemy and
idolatry respectively, which yet they hate and disavow, with
much zeal and heartiness of perswasion.

Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, s. 20.
Enforced hee was to put her away; and foorthwith to wed
Julia, the daughter of Augustus: not without much griefe
and heart-breake.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 91.

We observe the threnes and sad accents of the prophet
Jeremy, when he wept for the sins of his nation; the heart-
breakings of David, when he mourned for his adultery and
murther; and the bitter tears of St. Peter, when he washed
off the guilt and baseness of his fall, and the denying his
Master.- Bp. Taylor, pt. ii. Ser. 5.

Cromwell having acquainted the king with his danger,

Where, after all the heart-burnings and blood-sheddings Christ, but in the hearts of good men; the hearts of merciful occasioned by religious wars; where is the true church of believers, who from principle, in obedience to and for the love of Christ, as well as from sympathy, labour for peace, go about doing good, consulting, without local prejudice, the happiness of men, and instead of confining their good offices to a small part, endeavour to pour oil into the wounds of suffering human nature. Knox. Antipolemus, Pref.

I may be unable to lend an helping hand to those who direct the state: but I should be ashamed to make myself one of the noisy multitude to halloo and hearten them into doubtful and dangerous courses.

The labourer and mechanic chant over their daily toil; and though they pause only to wipe the sweat from off their brow, return to their work, after a short but hearty meal; or sweet slumbers on a bed of straw, not only without a murmur, but with alacrity.

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For the outrageo

Scarce had the tortur'd ear dejected heard
Rome's loud anathema, but heartless, dead
To every purpose, men nor wish'd to live,
Nor dar'd to die.

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Shenstone. The Ruined Abbey.

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Knox. Christian Philosophy, 8. 58.

But, it may be, you have doubts about religion: and therefore you do not set heartily to practise it: seek for information properly then, and hearken to it fairly.

Secker, vol. li. Ser. 17.

Deign to receive the nation's public voice,
Of heartiness unfeign'd, who gleeful stand
In meet array, and thus express their joys
In peals of loud acclaim, and mirth's confused noise.

Thompson. Epithalamium on the Royal Nuptials.

HEARTH. A. S. Heorthe, heorth-pening.-
Hertha, or Herthus, i. e. Terra, Earth, was wor-
shipped as a goddess by our northern ancestors,
(see Tacitus, de Moribus Ger.) and in honour of
which the family fire was kindled, but to the
whole house. The Roman Lar was used in a
See Junius and Wachter, (in
her, her name was given not only to the place on
similar manner.
vv. Hearth and Herthe;) and also Spelman, (in
v. Harthpenny.)

The place or spot upon which the fire was
kindled; now, under and immediately before the
grate or stove in which the fire is kindled.
boke the bol
He [Jehudi] cut the boke in pieces with a penne knyse,
and cast it into ye fire upõ the hearth, untyll
all brente in the fyre upon the hearth.

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protesting to him, that it was not in his power to undertake
his ressecurity and dining her suring him of
his according to the sincerity of his heart towards the king,
prepared himself to act his part at the general rendezvous.
Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 155.

for in the place where he was, as house shall think most

Nothing exposes men more to the wrath and vengeance of God, nor provokes him more to leave a people to their own counsels, than false heartedness in religion and hypo

Id. The Nonnes Prestes Tale, v. 14,914. crisie do. Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 4.

Ey maister, welcome be ye by Seint John,

Sayde this wif, how fare ye hertily?

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To whom (although he were a childe) he gave both pleasaunt and faire wordes, with hartie thankes, and inany gratificacions, to the great admiracion of the Frenche people. Hall. Hen. VI. an. 10.

So am I he, that among other his graces faithful subjectes, his highnes being in possession of his mariage, wil most hartely pray for ye prosperous estate of his grace, Jonge to continue to the pleasure of God.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1426. And this speaking did ferthermore also declare the lustie frenshnes & hertinesse of spirit in him. Udal. Luke, c. 7.

Thus hearten'd well, and flesh'd upon his prey

The youth may prove a man another day.

Dryden. Prologue to Circe, 1675.

Can you live without any sense or feeling that you have need of communion with God? and satisfy yourselves, if now and then you put up a few cold, formal, heartless prayers to him?-Sharp, vol. vi. Ser. 9.

Though the saving of our souls be the great business of
life, and what, it is to be hoped, we have most of us a real

and hearty concern for in our secret retirements; yet it
must, I am afraid, be owned, that there is too little mention
made of it, even when it might be proper; and too general
a silence and reserve about it.

Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 420.

Now let no man think that he has prayed heartily against
any sin, who does not do all that he can, who does not use
his utmost diligence, nay, his best art and skill, to under-
mine and weaken his inclination to that sin.
South, vol. vi. Ser. 10.

Upon the prince's [of Orange] coming, the king, in a very
obliging way, said to him; "Nephew, it is not good for
man to be alone, I will give you a help meet for you." And
so he told him he would bestow his niece on him, and the
duke, [c. York) with a seeming heartiness, gave his consent
in very obliging terms. Burnet. Own Time, an. 1677.

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In the mean time to gratify the people the hearth-tax was remitted for ever.-Evelyn. Memoirs, March 8, 1689.

Let us imagine that we behold a great dictator giving audience to the Samnite ambassadors, and preparing on the often subdued the enemies of the Commonwealth, and borne hearth his mean repast with the same hand, which had so the triumphal laurel to the Capitol.

HEAT, v.
HEAT, N.
HEATER.
HE/ATING, n.
HEATLESS.

Bolingbroke. Reflections upon Exile. A. S. Hat-an, hat-ian; Dut. Heet-en; Ger. Heitzen; Sw. Hetta, calefacere. See the quotation from Locke; and see Нот.

To cause the sensation of heat; to warm; to inflame; to kindle; (met.) to inflame, to give or cause ardour, or fervour; to enkindle, to animate, to agitate, with warm or burning feelings or passions. Heat, the noun, is also applied toAny continued violent effort or exertion; as a heat at a race.

This yere [Ao. xxxvi. H. III) was a gret hele and droughthe in Engelond, that fro the ferst day of Marche anon to the Assumpcion of our Lady non rayne felle on erthe.-R. Gloucester, p. 520.

For with that one, encreased all my feare,
And with that other gan my hart to bolde,
That one me het, that other did me colde.

Chaucer. The Assemblie of Foules,

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