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<h1>Heating</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Heat"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; <as>as, <ex>heating</ex> medicines or applications</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Heating surface</col> <fld>(Steam Boilers)</fld>, <cd>the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also <altname>fire surface</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Heatingly</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Heat"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.</def>

<h1>Heatless</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Heat"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Destitute of heat; cold.</def> <i>Beau. & Fl</i>.

<h1>Heave</h1> <Xpage=679>

<hw>Heave</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Heaved</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, or <er>Hove</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Heaved</er>, <er>Hove</er>, formerly <er>Hoven</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Heaving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>heven</ets>, <ets>hebben</ets>, As. <ets>hebban</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>hebbian</ets>, D. <ets>heffen</ets>, OHG. <ets>heffan</ets>, <ets>hevan</ets>, G. <ets>heven</ets>, Icel. <ets>h\'84fva</ets>, Dan. <ets>h\'91ve</ets>, Goth. <ets>hafjan</ets>, L. <ets>capere</ets> to take, seize; cf. Gr. <?/ handle. Cf. <er>Accept</er>, <er>Behoof</er>, <er>Capacious</er>, <er>Forceps</er>, <er>haft</er>, <er>Receipt</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with <i>up</i>; <as>as, the wave <ex>heaved</ex> the boat on land</as>.</def>

<blockquote>One <b>heaved</b> ahigh, to be hurled down below. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Heave</i>, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.</note>

<blockquote>Here a little child I stand, <b>Heaving</b> up my either hand. <i>Herrick.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; <as>as, to <ex>heave</ex> the lead; to <ex>heave</ex> the log.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; <as>as, to <ex>heave</ex> the ship ahead</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; <as>as, to <ex>heave</ex> a sigh</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The wretched animal <b>heaved</b> forth such groans. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.</def>

<blockquote>The glittering, finny swarms That <b>heave</b> our friths, and crowd upon our shores. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

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

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<h1>Heave</h1> <Xpage=680>

<hw>Heave</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.</def>

<blockquote>And the huge columns <b>heave</b> into the sky. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Where <b>heaves</b> the turf in many a moldering heap. <i>Gray.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>heaving</b> sods of Bunker Hill. <i>E. Everett.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Frequent for breath his panting bosom <b>heaves</b>. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>heaving</b> plain of ocean. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

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