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Where a dim gleam the paly lanthorn throws O'er the mid pavement, heapy rubbish grows. Gay. Scarce his head Raised o'er the heapy wreath, the branching elk Lies slumbering sullen in the white abyss.

Thomson. HEAR, v. a. a. & v. n. Sax. þynan, beaɲcman; HEAR ER, n. s. Goth. heyra; Teut. hoeHEARING, n. s. ran; Belg. hooran. The HEARK'EN, v. n. difference between hear HEARK ENER, N. s. and hearken: to hear is HEAR'SAY, 1. S. simply the act of the ear; to hearken, an act of the ear and mind, implying effort voluntarily made. Hear has the following meanings:-To enjoy the sense by which sounds are distinguished; to listen; to be told; to perceive; give audience; to obey; to attend favorably; to try; to attend ; to acknowledge a title: hearer, one who attends discourses orally delivered; one of an audience: hearken, to listen eagerly or curiously; to attend: hearsay, rumor; report.

Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor.
Hear the causes and judge righteously..

Numbers.

Deut. i. 16.

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Or hearest thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?

Milton.

Id.

So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not.

Great laughter was in heaven, And looking down, to see the hubbub strange, And hear the din. Milton.

On earth

Who against faith or conscience can be heard Infallible?

Id.

And so was she dulled withal, that we could come so near as to hear her speeches, and yet she not perceive the hearers of her lamentation. Sidney.

For prey these shepherds two he took, Whose metal stiff he knew he could not bend With hearsay pictures, or a window look. Id. The readers are the jury to decide according the merits of the cause, or to bring it to another hearing before some other court. Dryden.

The gaping three-mouthed dog forgets to snarl; The furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. Id. Louder and yet more loud, I hear the alarms Of human cries:

I mount the terrass, thence the town survey,
And hearken what the fruitful sounds convey. Id.
And sure he heard me, but he would not hear.

Jd.

Id.

The fox had the good luck to be within hearing. L'Estrange.

While that this king sit thus in his nobley, Herking his ministralles hir thinges pley, Beforne him at his bord delisiously In at the halle dore, al sodenly, Ther came a knight upon a stede of bros.

Id. The Squieres Tale. St. John and St. Matthew, which have recorded these sermons, heard them; and being hearers, did think themselves as well respected as the Pharisees.

Hooker.

This, of eldest parents, leaves us more in the dark, who, by divine institution, has a right to civil power, than those who never heard any thing at all of heir or descent. Locke.

Those who put passion in the place of reason, neither use their own, nor hearken to other people's reaId. son, any farther than it suits their humour.

I must beg the forbearance of censure, till I have been heard out in the sequel of this discourse, Id.

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Sound is nothing but a certain modulation of the external air, which, being gathered by the external air, beats, as is supposed, upon the membrana tympani, which moves the four little bones in the tympanum in like manner, as it is beat by the external air, these little bones move the internal air which is in the tympanum and vestibulum; which internal air makes an impression upon the auditory nerve in the labyrinth and cochlea, according as it is moved by the little bones in the tympanum: so that, according to the various reflections of the external air, the internal air makes various impressions upon the auditory nerve, the immediate organ of hearing; and these different impressions represent different sounds. Quincy.

He who makes much necessary, will want much; and, wearied with the difficulty of the attainment, will hearken after any expedient that offers to shorten his way to it. Rogers.

Vice heard his fame, she read his bill, Convinced of his inferior skill She sought his booth, and from the crowd Defyed the man of art aloud.

The goddess heard.

Gay's Fables. Pope: There's not a blessing individuals find, But some way leans and hearkens to the kind. Id. Her hearers had no share

In all she spoke, except to stare. Swift. Hear it not ye stars, And thou pale moon! turn paler at the sound.

Young.

All Nature fades extinct; and she alone Heard, felt, and seen possesses every thought Fills every sense, and pants in every vein.

Thomson.

And her voice was the warble of a bird, So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear,

That finer, simpler music ne'er was heard: The sort of sound we echo with a tear,

Without knowing why-an overpowering tone Whence melody descends as from a throne.

Byron.

HEARD signifies a keeper, and is sometimes initial; as heard-heart a glorious keeper: sometimes final, as cyneheard, a royal keeper.-Gibson's Camden. It is now written herd; as cowherd, a cow-keeper; Saxon þýrd.

HEARD (Sir Isaac), the late venerable garter principal king at arms, was born at Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, December 10th, 1730. He entered early in life into the naval service, and had a narrow escape for his life on the coast of Africa, by falling overboard with the mainmast of the ship; but was saved by the exertions of a companion, Kingsmill, who afterwards became an admiral. In 1759, being only a midshipman, he was appointed by the favor of the earl of Effingham the acting earl marshal, blue mantle pursuivant of arms. In 1761 he was made Lancaster herald; in 1774 Norroy; in 1780 Clarencieux, by patent: and in 1784 garter principal

king at arms. At the first chapter held in 1786 he was knighted. At the age of eighty-four Sir Isaac went to Brussels, where he invested the king of the Netherlands with the order of the garter; and thence to Vienna, to perform the same ceremony to the emperor of Austria. The last public service in which he engaged was that of attending the funeral of his late majesty, with whom he had been a great favorite. Sir Isaac died at the heralds' college, April 29th 1822, having seen, with the infant of the princess Charlotte, six generations of the Brunswick family. He was buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor.

HEARNE (Thomas), a learned antiquary, and classical editor, was born at White Waltham Berkshire, where his father was parish clerk and school-master about 1678. After acquiring a knowledge of Latin and Greek, he was taken into the house of a Mr. Cherry, of Shottesbrooke, with whom the celebrated Henry Dodwell then resided, to whose instructions Hearne appears to have been indebted. He was sent in 1696 to Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was employed by Dr. Mill and Dr. Grabe in the collation of MSS., and obtained his degrees in arts in 1701 he was made assistant to Dr. Hudson, the keeper of the Bodleian library, when he greatly improved Hyde's catalogue of that literary collection. In 1712 he was appointed second librarian; and in 1715 architypographer and esquire beadle of the civil law; but he soon resigned these offices, through scrupling to take the oath of allegiance to George I. He however continued to reside at Edmund Hall, where he died June 10th 1735. His labors were almost exclusively those of an editor, in which character he merits the praise of accuracy and fidelity. He published editions of Livy, Justin, and Eutropius; but his publications chiefly consist of the monastic and other ancient chronicles of our history. Among the rarest is the Acts of the Apostles in Greek and Latin, from a MS. in the Bodleian library.

HEARNE (Thomas), was born in 1744, at Binkworth, in Wiltshire, and learned the art of engraving from the ingenious Woollet; but did not afterwards follow that profession; being engaged by Sir Ralph Payne, governor of the Leeward Islands, to go out with him as a draughtsman. On his return to England he applied to the study of Gothic architecture and landscape; and, in conjunction with Mr. Byrne, undertook the Antiquities of Great Britain, for which he made the whole of the drawings. He seldom attempted bold scenery, but for truth and chasteness of coloring has seldom been surpassed. He was a member of the Society of Antiquaries: and the leader of all that is excellent in modern landscape painting in water colors. He died April 13th, 1818.

HEARSE, or HERSE, n. s. Barb. Lat. hersia; or Goth. hirdu, to environ, or enclose. A carriage in which the dead are conveyed to the grave; a temporary monument set over a grave.

To add to your laments Wherewith you now bedew king Henry's hearse, I must inform you of a dismal sight. Shakspeare.

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HEART, n. s. Sax. peont; Swed. hard; Teut. herts. The muscle which by its contraction and dilatation propels the blood through the course of circulation, and is therefore considered as the source of vital motion. It is supposed in popular language to be the seat sometimes of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty or baseness. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part; the inner part of any thing. Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindness. Seat of love; affection; inclination; memory: though South seems to distinguish. Good-will; ardor of zeal. To take to heart any thing is to be zealous or solicitous or ardent about it. Anxiety; concern; secret recesses of the mind; disposition. The heart is considered as the seat of tenderness: a hard heart therefore is cruelty. To find in the heart, to be not wholly averse. Secret meaning or intention; conscience; strength; vigor; efficacy; the utmost degree of feeling; life. For my heart seems sometimes to signify, if life were at stake; and sometimes for tenderness. This word is much used in composition with other words to which it gives the idea of cordiality, or extreme of feeling; as in the following examples.

Joab perceived that the king's heart was towards

Absalom.

2 Sum. Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. Id. vi. 16.

What pretty man is this That rometh here? now, truly, drinke ne mete Nede I not have, mine herte for joye doth bete Him to beholde, so is he godely freshe; It seemeth, for love, his herte is tendre and neshe. Chaucer. The Court of Love. Wide was the wound; and a large lukewarm flood, Red as the rose, thence gushed grievously,

That when the painim spyed the streaming blood, Gave him great heart and hope of victory.

Spenser. Faerie Queene. There did other like unhappy accidents happen out of England, which gave heart and good opportunity to them to regain their old possessions.

Spenser.

Every man's heart and conscience doth in good or evil, even secretly committed, and known to none but itself, either like or disallow itself. Hooker.

If he take not their causes to heart, how should there be but in them frozen coldness, when his affections seem benumbed, from whom theirs should take fire? Id.

This gay charm,

Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.

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I've seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld Heart-hardening spectacles.

Id.

Whatsoever was attained to, concerning God and his working in nature, the same was delivered over by heart and tradition from wise men to a posterity equally zealous. Raleigh.

Try whether leaves of trees, swept together, with some chalk and dung mixed, to give them more Bacon. heart, would not make a good compost.

If he would take the business to heart, and deal in it effectually, it would succeed well. Id.

Barley being steeped in water, and turned upon a dry floor, will sprout half an inch; and if it be let alone, much more, until the heart be out.

Id.

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the outward parts.

VOL. XI.

Generally the inside or heart of trees is harder than

Otway. Venice Preserved.

Boyle.

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Would you have him open his heart to you, and ask your advice, you must be in to do so with him Locke.

first.

We call the committing of a thing to memory the getting it by heart; for it is the memory that must transmit it to the heart; and it is in vain to expect that the heart should keep its hold of any truth, when South. the memory has let it go.

Every prudent and honest man would join himself to that side which had the good of their country most Addison. at heart.

Such iron hearts we are, and such
Rowe.
The base barbarity of human kind.
Learned men have been now a long time searching
after the happy country from which our first parents
were exiled: if they can find it, with all my heart.
Woodward.

Ah. what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserved my sheep!
Pope.

Shall I in London act this idle part'
Composing songs for fools to get by heart.
Men, some to pleasure, some to business take;
But every woman is, at heart, a rake.

Id.

Id.

Id.

Prest with heart-corroding grief and years,
To the gay court a rural shed prefers.
I would not be sorry to find the Presbyterians mis-
taken in this point, which they have most at heart.

Swift. What I have most at heart is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Id. language.

Mortimer.

Care must be taken not to plow ground out of heart,
because if 'tis in heart, it may be improved by marl
again.
A fonder parent Nature never knew,
And as his age increased his fondness grew.
A parent's love ne'er better was bestowed;
The pious daughter in her heart o'erflowed.
Young. Force of Religion.
Not kings alone,

Each villager has his ambition too;
No sultan prouder than his fettered slave;
Slaves build their little Babylons of straw,
Echo the proud Assyrian in their hearts,
And cry- Behold the wonders of my might.'
Id. Night Thoughts.

But these thou must renounce, if lust of wealth
E'er win its way to thy corrupted heart;
For ah it poisons like a scorpion's dart. Beattie.
O cruel! will no pang of pity pierce
That heart by lust of lucre seared to stone? Id.

The heart is like the sky, a part of heaven,
But changes night and day too, like the sky;
Now o'er it clouds and thunder must be driven,
And darkness and destruction as on high.
But when it hath been scorched, and pierced, and
riven,

Its storms expire in water-drops; the eye
Pours forth at last the heart's-blood turned to tears,
Which make the English climate of our years.
Byron. Don Juan.
HEART. See ANATOMY, Index. Physi-
ologists and anatomists have from time to
time attempted to make estimates of the force
of the blood in the heart and arteries; but
have differed as widely from each other, as they
have from the truth, for want of sufficient data.
This set the ingenious Dr. Hales upon making
proper experiments, to ascertain the force of the
blood in the veins and arteries of several ani-
mals. If, according to Dr. Keil's estimate, the
left ventricle of a man's heart throws out in each
systole an ounce or 1.638 cubic inches of blood,
and the area of the orifice of the aorta be

04187, then, dividing the former by this, the quotient 3.9 is the length of the cylinder of blood which is formed in passing through the aorta in each systole of the ventricle; and, in the seventy-five pulses of a minute, a cylinder of 292.5 inches in length will pass: this is at the rate of 1462 feet in an hour. But, the systole of the heart being performed in one-third of this time, the velocity of the blood in that instant will be thrice as much, viz. at the rate of 4386 feet in an hour, or seventy-three feet in a minute. And if the ventricle throws out one ounce in a pulse, then, in the seventy-five pulses of a minute, the quantity of blood will be equal to 4.4 lbs. 11 oz.; and in thirty-four minutes a quantity equal to a middle-sized man, viz. 158 lbs. will pass through the heart. But if, with Dr. Harvey and Dr. Lower, we suppose 2 oz. of blood, that is 3.276 cubic inches, to be thrown out at each systole of the ventricle, then the velocity of the blood in entering the orifice of the aorta will be double the former, viz. at the rate of 146 feet in a minute, and a quantity of blood equal to the weight of a man's body will pass in half the time, viz. seventeen minutes. If we suppose, what is probable, that the blood will rise 7+ feet high in a tube fixed to the carotid artery of a man, and that the inward area of the left ventricle of his heart is equal to fifteen square inches, these, multiplied into 7x feet, give 1350 cubic inches of blood, which presses on that ventricle, when it first begins to contract a weight equal to 15.5 lbs. What Dr. Hales thus calculated from supposition, with regard to mankind, he actually experimented upon horses, dogs, fallow-does, &c., by fixing tubes in orifices opened in their veins and arteries; by observing the several heights to which the blood rose in these tubes as they lay on the ground; and by measuring the capacities of the ventricles of the heart and orifices of the arteries. And, that the reader may the more readily compare the said estimates together, he has given a table of them, ranged in the following order.

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HEART-BREAK, n. s.

HEART-BREAKER, n. S. HEART-BREAKING, adj., n. s. HEART-BURNED, adj. HEART-BURNING, n. s. HEART'-RENDING, adj. HEART-ROBBING, adj. HEART-SICK, adj. HEART-SORE, adj. HEART-STRUCK, adj. HEART-SWELLING, adj. HEART-WOUNDED, adj. HEART-WOUNDING, adj. HEART-DEAR, adj. HEART-EASE, n. s. HEART-EASING, adj. HEART-FELT, adj. HEART-QUELLING, adj. HEART-STRING, n. s. HEART-WHOLE, adj. HEART'S'-EASE, n. s. HEART-PEASE, n. s.

Compounds

of heart with other words, for the most part expressing their own peculiar meanings, and implying various degrees of suffering or pleasure, sorrow or discontent. Heartburn, pain at the stomach arising from acidity, and figuratively secret discontent or enmity heartdear, sincerely beloved; heartquelling, quering the af

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fection; heart-robbing, ecstatic to a degree depriving of thought; heart-string, ligaments or nerves supposed to sustain the heart, properly the vessels by which it is suspended; heartwhole, affections yet unfixed, or vitals yet unimpaired; the other words are too obvious to require specific illustration. Heart-breaker is an obsolete word or cant term for a woman's curls, supposed to break the heart of all her lovers; heart's-ease, the name of a flower; heart-pease, a plant.

Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad time, Which late you poured forth, as ye did sit Beside the silver springs of Helicone, Making your musick of heart-breaking mone.

Spenser.

Wherever he that godly knight may find, His only heart-sore and his only foe.

Id. Faerie Queene. Drawn into arms, and proof of mortal fight, Through proud ambition and heart-swelling hate. Spenser.

Sweet as thy virtue, as thyself sweet art; For when on me thou shinedst, late in sadness, A melting pleasance ran through every part, And me revived with heart-robbing gladness. Id. And let fair Venus, that is queen of love, With her heart-quelling son, upon you smile. Id.

He was by Jove deprived

Of life himself, and heart-strings of an eagle rived. Id. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. Shakspeare.

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