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The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.

Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind. B. Jonson.

A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. -- Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck. Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. Milton.

Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.

An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.

A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.

n it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]

To hearten; to encourage; to incite. [Obs.] Spenser.

The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark- colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence. Collier.

hythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak.

Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.

Preying on the heart.

Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser.

A part of the breastbone. [Obs.] He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer.