<B>hearty, </B>adjective, <B>heartier,</B> <B>heartiest,</B> noun, pl. <B>hearties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>warm and friendly; full of feeling; genuine; sincere. <BR> <I>Ex. hearty wishes for a happy birthday. We gave our old friends a hearty welcome.</I> (SYN) heartfelt, cordial, genial, cheery. <DD><B> 2. </B>strong and well; vigorous. <BR> <I>Ex. The old man was still hale and hearty at ninety.</I> (SYN) hale, healthy, robust. <DD><B> 3. </B>full of energy and enthusiasm; not restrained. <BR> <I>Ex. He burst out a loud, hearty laugh.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>with plenty to eat; satisfying to the appetite; abundant. <BR> <I>Ex. A hearty meal satisfied his hunger.</I> (SYN) ample, full. <DD><B> b. </B>nourishing; strengthening. <BR> <I>Ex. hearty food.</I> (SYN) invigorating. <DD><B> 5. </B>requiring or using much food; having good appetite. <BR> <I>Ex. People who work outdoors are usually hearty eaters.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>fertile. <BR> <I>Ex. hearty farmland.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a fellow sailor; brave and good comrade. <BR> <I>Ex. Monsoon, my hearty, how goes it? (Charles Leyer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=backslapper.</B> </DL>
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<B>heat, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the condition of being hot; high temperature; hotness; warmth. <BR> <I>Ex. the heat of fire.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Physics.) a form of energy caused by the motion of molecules. Friction, electricity, the sun, and your body all produce heat. The rate at which the molecules move determines the temperature. Heat is capable of being transmitted from one body to another by conduction, convection, or radiation. The effects of absorbed heat on a body are increase of temperature, expansion of volume, and possible change of state, as of a solid to a liquid, or of a liquid to a gas. <DD><B> c. </B>degree of hotness; temperature. <BR> <I>Ex. red heat, white heat, blood heat, animal heat.</I> <DD><B> d. </B>the sensation or perception of hotness or warmth, such as is experienced from nearness to fire. <DD><B> e. </B>a heated bodily condition. <BR> <I>Ex. He got into a heat by running.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>hot weather or a hot season. <BR> <I>Ex. the heat of summer.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) warmth or intensity of feeling; anger, vehemence, violence, excitement, or ardor. <BR> <I>Ex. The heat of his spirit struck warm through all lands (Rudyard Kipling).</I> (SYN) rage, fervor, animation. <DD><B> 4. </B>the hottest or most intense point; most violent or active stage; excitement. <BR> <I>Ex. In the heat of the argument he lost his temper.</I> (SYN) height, stress. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>pressure or coercion. <BR> <I>Ex. Rousting the teen-agers who now throng the Sunset Strip may take the political heat off the department (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>intense police pressure or activity. <BR> <I>Ex. But the heat was on and Antony took it on the lam (Punch).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>the police. <BR> <I>Ex. Out the door comes this great big porcine member of the heat, all belts and bullets and pistols and keys and flashlights and clubs and helmets (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Figurative.) a single intense effort or bout of action; one continuous operation; a stroke. <BR> <I>Ex. to do a thing at a heat.</I> <DD><B> 7a. </B>one trial in a race; a section of a race, consisting of a complete running of the course. <BR> <I>Ex. He won the first heat, but lost the final race.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any contest to eliminate competition. <BR> <I>Ex. The New Hampshire primary [is] the first of a series of Presidential trial heats (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 8a. </B>one complete operation of heating in a furnace or a forge. <DD><B> b. </B>the quantity of metal thus heated. <DD><B> 9a. </B>a periodically recurring condition of sexual excitement in female animals; estrus. <DD><B> b. </B>the period of time that this excitement lasts, during which the female will mate with the male. <DD><B> 10. </B>(Psychology.) a sensation with a stinging character when warm and cold receptors on the skin are stimulated simultaneously. <DD><B> 11. </B>a hot place; fire. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make hot or warm. <BR> <I>Ex. The stove heats the room.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to fill with strong feeling; excite; inflame. <BR> <I>Ex. His stirring speech heated the audience's imagination.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to become hot or warm. <BR> <I>Ex. The soup is heating slowly.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to be filled with strong feeling; become excited. <BR><I>expr. <B>heat up,</B> </I>to make or become hot, excited, more intense, or increased. <BR> <I>Ex. Steel price probe heats up as New York grand jury calls executives to testify (Wall Street Journal).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>put</B> (or <B>turn</B>) <B>the heat on,</B> </I>(Slang.) to apply pressure; intensify an effort, pursuit, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Tax progress lags. ... The Administration plans to turn the heat on (Wall Street Journal).</I> adj. <B>heatable.</B> adj. <B>heatless.</B> </DL>
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<B>heat barrier,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the point of speed beyond which the wings and fuselage of a plane are made dangerously hot by friction with the atmosphere; thermal barrier. </DL>
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<B>heat centers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physiology.) areas in the central nervous system which are concerned with the production and dissipation of heat. </DL>
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<B>heat cramp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> muscle cramp accompanied by pain and nausea, caused by loss of salt and water through excessive perspiration. </DL>
<B>heat energy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the form of energy that is manifested in heat. </DL>
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<B>heat engine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an engine that changes heat into motive power, especially a steam or internal-combustion engine. </DL>
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<B>heat equator,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an imaginary line drawn near the earth's equator, through the middle of the belt which represents the hottest areas of the earth, with average annual temperatures of about 80 degrees F or about 26 degrees C; thermal equator. </DL>
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<B>heater, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thing that gives heat or warmth, such as a stove, furnace, or radiator. <DD><B> 2. </B>a container in which something is placed to be heated. <DD><B> 3. </B>an element in a vacuum tube that indirectly heats the cathode. <DD><B> 4. </B>a person who heats something. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Slang.) a gun. </DL>
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<B>heat exchange,</B> <B>=heat transfer.</B></DL>
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<B>heat exchanger,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a device for the transfer of heat from one medium to another so it may be utilized, as in an atomic power plant, or dispersed, as in the gas refrigerator. The radiator is a common heat exchanger. </DL>
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<B>heat exhaustion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a condition caused by excessive exposure to heat and characterized by a cold, clammy skin and general symptoms of shock; heat prostration. </DL>
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<B>heath, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(British.) open wasteland with heather or low bushes growing on it; moor. A heath has few or no trees. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various plants and low bushes growing on such land. Heather is one kind of heath. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of a group of low, evergreen shrubs with needlelike leaves. Species of heath are widely distributed throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region, but are most abundant in South Africa, where they constitute one of the principal forms of vegetation. <DD><B> 4. </B>any plant of the heath family. <DD><B> 5. </B>any one of several shrubs resembling plants of the genus to which the heath belongs, but of a different family, such as the sea heath. <BR><I>expr. <B>one's native heath,</B> </I>the place where one was born or brought up. <BR> <I>Ex. My foot is on my native heath (Scott).</I> adj. <B>heathlike.</B> </DL>
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<B>heath aster,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wild aster common in the eastern United States, having small, white flowers; dog fennel. </DL>
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<B>heath bell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the bell-shaped flower of the heath. </DL>
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<B>heathberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various berries growing on heaths, such as the crowberry and bilberry. </DL>
<B>heath cock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a male black grouse; blackcock. </DL>
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<B>heathen, </B>noun, pl. <B>-thens</B> or <B>-then,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who does not believe in the God of the Bible or the Koran; person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Moslem; pagan. <BR> <I>Ex. I was sorry to find more mercy in an heathen than in a brother Christian (Jonathan Swift).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>people who are heathens. <BR> <I>Ex. The heathen invaded the country destroying all that lay before them.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(in the Old Testament) the gentiles, or people who did not worship Jehovah, the God of the Jews. <DD><B> 4. </B>a person who has no religion or culture; unenlightened person. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with heathens; not Christian, Jewish, or Moslem; pagan. <BR> <I>Ex. Christian love among the Churches looked the twin of heathen hate (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not religious or cultured; unenlightened. </DL>
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<B>heathendom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>heathen worship or ways. <DD><B> 2. </B>heathen lands or people. </DL>
<A NAME="heathenish">
<B>heathenish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with heathens. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) like heathens; uncivilized; barbarous. adv. <B>heathenishly.</B> noun <B>heathenishness.</B> </DL>
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<B>heathenism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the religious or moral system of heathens; heathen worship or ways; paganism. (SYN) idolatry. <DD><B> 2. </B>lack of religion or culture; barbarism. </DL>
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<B>heathenize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to make heathen or heathenish. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to practice heathenism; become heathen or heathenish. </DL>
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<B>heathenry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=heathenism.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>heathen people; the heathen. </DL>
