<B>heart failure,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> stoppage or interference in the normal action of the heart so that the amount of blood flowing from the heart becomes inadequate. <BR> <I>Ex. Heart failure is not a disease in itself but is rather a common end point of all organic heart diseases (Harry L. Jaffe).</I> </DL>
<B>hearth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the stone or brick floor of a fireplace, often extending out into the room. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the fireside; home. <BR> <I>Ex. The soldiers longed for their own hearths. Sweet household talk, and phrases of the hearth (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>the lowest part of a blast furnace, where the molten metal and slag collect; crucible. <DD><B> b. </B>the floor of an open hearth, reverberatory furnace, or other furnace, on which the ore or iron is exposed to the flame to be smelted or heated. <DD><B> c. </B><B>=bloomery.</B> <DD><B> d. </B>the fireplace of a forge. <DD><B> 4. </B>the bottom or bed for the fire, as in a furnace or stove. <DD><B> 5. </B>a portable brazier used in soldering. </DL>
<A NAME="hearthmoney">
<B>hearth money</B> or <B>tax,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tax upon hearths or chimneys. <DD><B> 2. </B>an annual tax of two shillings on each hearth, imposed in England from 1662 to 1689. </DL>
<A NAME="hearthrug">
<B>hearthrug, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a rug laid before a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>fireside; domestic. <BR> <I>Ex. The sparrow is far too 'fly' a bird for the hearthrug-bred cat (London Daily Chronicle).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>resembling a hearthrug. <BR> <I>Ex. The inelegant, cumbrous, and shaggy hearthrug coats (Westminster Gazette).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hearthside">
<B>hearthside, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the side of a hearth. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) home. <BR> <I>Ex. Memories of his boyhood hearthside flooded his mind.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hearthstone">
<B>hearthstone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the stone forming a hearth. <BR> <I>Ex. How can I turn from any fire On any man's hearthstone? (Rudyard Kipling).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the fireside; home. <BR> <I>Ex. Around these hearthstones speak no evil word of any creature (James Lane Allen).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a soft stone, or a preparation of powdered stone and pipe clay, used to scour hearths, doorsteps, and the like. </DL>
<A NAME="heartily">
<B>heartily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>with sincere feeling; in a warm, friendly way; genuinely. <BR> <I>Ex. She welcomed her cousins heartily.</I> (SYN) sincerely. <DD><B> 2. </B>with courage, spirit, or enthusiasm; with good will; vigorously. <BR> <I>Ex. to set to work heartily.</I> (SYN) zealously. <DD><B> 3. </B>with a good appetite. <BR> <I>Ex. to eat heartily.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>very; completely; thoroughly. <BR> <I>Ex. My mother was heartily tired of so much housework.</I> (SYN) abundantly, exceedingly. </DL>
<A NAME="heartiness">
<B>heartiness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>sincere feeling. <BR> <I>Ex. The duke with a seeming heartiness gave his consent (Gilbert Burnet).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>vigor. </DL>
<A NAME="heartland">
<B>heartland, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any area or region that is the center of, or vital to, a country, institution, or industry. <BR> <I>Ex. an agricultural heartland, a Republican heartland. Strategic bombardment of vital elements of an enemy's heartland ... was conceived by forward-looking airmen (United States Air Force Report on the Ballistic Missile).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an economically and militarily self-sufficient land mass, located centrally in and controlling the world island (the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa), and relatively invulnerable to attack from the sea. <BR> <I>Ex. It is evident that the heartland is as real a physical fact within the world island as is the world island itself within the ocean ... (Sir Halford J. Mackinder). But from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heartless">
<B>heartless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without kindness or sympathy; unfeeling; cruel; callous. <BR> <I>Ex. heartless words, a heartless coquette.</I> (SYN) hard, pitiless. <DD><B> 2. </B>without courage, spirit, or enthusiasm. <BR> <I>Ex. a heartless mood Of solitude (Wordsworth).</I> (SYN) apathetic, spiritless. adv. <B>heartlessly.</B> noun <B>heartlessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heartlungmachine">
<B>heart-lung machine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a machine that pumps oxygenated blood through the body, while the heart is drained of blood during certain operations. </DL>
<A NAME="heartmurmur">
<B>heart murmur,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abnormal sound due to a leaky valve in the heart. A functional heart murmur may appear after a person exercises strenuously. </DL>
<A NAME="heartpoint">
<B>heart point,</B> <B>=fess point.</B></DL>
<A NAME="heartquake">
<B>heartquake, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>palpitation of the heart. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a sudden tremor of emotion. <BR> <I>Ex. How a lip's mere tremble, Look's half hesitation ... effect a heartquake (Robert Browning).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heartrending">
<B>heart-rending, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing mental anguish; very distressing. <BR> <I>Ex. To lose one's parents in an airplane crash is a heart-rending experience.</I> adv. <B>heart-rendingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heartrot">
<B>heartrot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a disease which causes decay in the heart of a tree. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fungous disease of the roots of beets. </DL>
<A NAME="hearts">
<B>hearts, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>heart.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heartsandflowers">
<B>hearts and flowers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) sentimentality. <BR> <I>Ex. Transplanted from stage to screen, Enid Bagnold's witty, pitiless ... high comedy yields only a withered bouquet of hearts and flowers (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heartsearching">
<B>heart-searching, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an inquiry into one's deeper or deepest feelings and emotions. <DD><I>adj. </I> that searches or rigorously examines the deepest feelings. <BR> <I>Ex. Few books in a dozen years have provoked such heart-searching reviews (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heartsease">
<B>heartsease</B> or <B>heart's-ease, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>peace of mind; tranquility. <DD><B> 2. </B>the pansy, especially the wild pansy. <DD><B> 3. </B>some other kind of the same group as the pansy. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) the common persicary. </DL>
<A NAME="heartshaped">
<B>heart-shaped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the shape of a heart; cordate. </DL>
<A NAME="heartsick">
<B>heartsick, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> sick at heart; very depressed; very unhappy. <BR> <I>Ex. Chatham, heartsick of his country's shame (William Cowper).</I> (SYN) despondent. noun <B>heartsickness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heartsome">
<B>heartsome, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially Scottish.) <DD><B> 1. </B>that gives heart or cheer; that rejoices the heart; animating. <BR> <I>Ex. Overhead the heartsome stars were set in the face of the night (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> (SYN) inspiring, exhilarating. <DD><B> 2. </B>full of cheer or gladness; merry; joyous. (SYN) cheerful, blithe. adv. <B>heartsomely.</B> </DL>
<B>heart-stricken, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> struck to the heart with grief; shocked with fear; dismayed. </DL>
<A NAME="heartstrings">
<B>heartstrings, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the deepest feelings; strongest affections. <BR> <I>Ex. The poor beggar's story tugged at our heartstrings.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the tendons or nerves formerly thought to support the heart. </DL>
<A NAME="heartthrob">
<B>heartthrob, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a throb or pulsation of the heart; heartbeat. <DD><B> 2. </B>passionate or sentimental emotion. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) a sweetheart. </DL>
<A NAME="hearttoheart">
<B>heart-to-heart, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without reserve; frank; sincere. <BR> <I>Ex. a heart-to-heart talk.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hearturchin">
<B>heart urchin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of generally heart-shaped sea urchins; spatangus. <BR> <I>Ex. Heart urchins have become modified by evolution to possess a partly bilateral symmetry that fits better with their mode of movement (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heartwarming">
<B>heart-warming, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to arouse warm and sympathetic feelings; sentimental; endearing. <BR> <I>Ex. the antique, the picturesque, and the unabashedly heart-warming (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heartwater">
<B>heartwater, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a serious, infectious, rickettsial disease of sheep, goats, and cattle in South Africa, transmitted through the bont tick. </DL>
<A NAME="heartwhole">
<B>heart-whole, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not in love; having the affections free. <BR> <I>Ex. Cupid hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant him heart-whole (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>hearty; sincere. <BR> <I>Ex. heart-whole congratulations.</I> noun <B>heartwholeness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heartwood">
<B>heartwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the hard, central wood of a tree; duramen. Heartwood is nonliving wood, harder and more solid than the newer sapwood that surrounds it. </DL>
<A NAME="heartworm">
<B>heartworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nematode worm that infests the hearts and arteries of dogs. </DL>
