Part 5192

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.</def>

<blockquote>The Church of England had struggled and <b>heaved</b> at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.</def>

<cs><col>To heave at</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To make an effort at.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To attack, to oppose. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Fuller</i>.</cd> -- <col>To heave in sight</col> <cd>(as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear.</cd> -- <col>To heave up</col>, <cd>to vomit. <mark></mark></cd></cs>

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<hw>Heave</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.</def>

<blockquote>After many strains and <b>heaves</b> He got up to his saddle eaves. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote>

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

<blockquote>There's matter in these sighs, these profound <b>heaves</b>, You must translate. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>None could guess whether the next <b>heave</b> of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.</def>

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<hw>Heav"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>heven</ets>, <ets>hefen</ets>, <ets>heofen</ets>, AS. <ets>heofon</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>hevan</ets>, LG. <ets>heben</ets>, <ets>heven</ets>, Icel. <ets>hifinn</ets>; of uncertain origin, cf. D. <ets>hemel</ets>, G. <ets>himmel</ets>, Icel. <ets>himmin</ets>, Goth. <ets>himins</ets>; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. <ets>heave</ets>, or from a root signifying <ets>to cover</ets>, cf. Goth. <ets>gaham<?/n</ets> to put on, clothe one's self, G. <ets>hemd</ets> shirt, and perh. E. <ets>chemise</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>I never saw the <b>heavens</b> so dim by day. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in <b>heaven</b>. <i>D. Webster.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.</def>

<blockquote>Unto the God of love, high <b>heaven's</b> King. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is a knell That summons thee to <b>heaven</b> or to hell. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>New thoughts of God, new hopes of <b>Heaven</b>. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; In this general sense <i>heaven</i> and its corresponding words in other languages have as various definite interpretations as there are phases of religious belief.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.</def>

<blockquote>Her prayers, whom <b>Heaven</b> delights to hear. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The will And high permission of all-ruling <b>Heaven</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; <as>as, a <ex>heaven</ex> of delight</as>.</def> "A <i>heaven</i> of beauty." <i>Shak</i>. "The brightest <i>heaven</i> of invention."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>O bed! bed! delicious bed! That <b>heaven</b> upon earth to the weary head! <i>Hood.</i></blockquote>

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

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