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A pulling with force; a violent pull.

l or passion; ungovernable. All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.

A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats. Dryden. [He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o'Shanter." J. C. Shairp.

Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

The act or effort of heaving [Obs.] He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak.

At this point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren.

Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. "With rather a high manner." Thackeray. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Ps. lxxxix. 13. Can heavenly minds such high resentment show D…

Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.

explanation; also, an occasion or motive. Our hint of woe Is common. Shak. The hint malevolent, the look oblique. Hannah M

aracterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. Byron.

Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth. Dryden.

A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.

Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.

In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham.

an; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination. Sportswood.

Benevolent; philanthropic. [Recent]

ten with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps. cxl. 11.