Part 5208

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.</def>

<blockquote>Social duties are carried to greater <b>heights</b>, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; <as>as, the <ex>height</ex> of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the <ex>height</ex> of a tempest.</as></def>

<blockquote>My grief was at the <b>height</b> before thou camest. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>On height</col>, <cd>aloud. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd>

<blockquote> spake these same words, all <b>on hight</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote></cs>

<h1>Heighten</h1> <Xpage=682>

<hw>Height"en</hw> <tt>(h&imac;t"'n)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <altsp>[Written also <asp>highten</asp>.]</altsp> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Heightened</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Heightening</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; <as>as, to <ex>heighten</ex> beauty; to <ex>heighten</ex> a flavor or a tint.</as></def> "To <i>heighten</i> our confusion."

<i>Addison.</i>

<blockquote>An aspect of mystery which was easily <b>heightened</b> to the miraculous. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Heightener</h1> <Xpage=682>

<hw>Height"en*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Written also <ets>hightener</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, heightens.</def>

<h1>Heinous</h1> <Xpage=682>

<hw>Hei"nous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>ha\'8bnos</ets> hateful, F. <ets>haineux</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>ha\'8bne</ets> hate, F. <ets>haine</ets>, fr. <ets>ha\'8br</ets> to hate; of German origin. See <er>Hate</er>.]</ety> <def>Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.</def>

<blockquote>It were most <b>heinous</b> and accursed sacrilege. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How <b>heinous</b> had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Hei"nous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Hei"nous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Heir</h1> <Xpage=682>

<hw>Heir</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>heir</ets>, <ets>eir</ets>, <ets>hair</ets>, OF. <ets>heir</ets>, <ets>eir</ets>, F. <ets>hoir</ets>, L. <ets>heres</ets>; of uncertain origin. Cf. <er>Hereditary</er>, <er>Heritage</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.</def>

<blockquote>I am my father's <b>heir</b> and only son. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; <as>as, the <ex>heir</ex> of one's reputation or virtues</as>.</def>

<blockquote>And I his <b>heir</b> in misery alone. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Heir apparent</col>. <fld>(Law.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Apparent</er>.</cd> -- <col>Heir at law</col>, <cd>one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. <i>Wharton (Law Dict.)</i>.</cd> -- <col>Heir presumptive</col>, <cd>one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or by some other contingency.</cd></cs>

<h1>Heir</h1> <Xpage=682>

<hw>Heir</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To inherit; to succeed to.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>One only daughter <b>heired</b> the royal state. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>