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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



905 words match “HEART”

FROZEN a.
Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.
FULL a.
Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. Lowell.
FUMAGE n.
Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.
FUME n.
as in the form of vapor. The heat will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young.
FUNCTION n.
of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
GALE n.
A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity. The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale. Brooke (Eastford). Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.
GAME v.
ed, in Old English, impersonally with dative. [Obs.] God loved he best with all his whole hearte At alle times, though him gamed or smarte. Chaucer.
GATHER v.
ll humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.
GET v.
ith out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson. It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty. Bp. Fell.
GIBLETS n.
The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
GIDDY a.
ss. "Giddy, foolish hours." Rowe. "Giddy chance." Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. Cowper.
GILL n.
A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. "Each Jack with his Gill." B. Jonson.
GIVER n.
or; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
GLAD v.
r. That which gladded all the warrior train. Dryden. Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man. Pope.
GLADNESS n.
satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46.
GLORIFY v.
To make glorious in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore. That we for thee may glorify the Lord. Shak.
GLOSS n.
A specious appearance; superficial quality or show. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith.
GLOW v.
sion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden. Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Pope.
GLUT v.
ty; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to…
GO v.
To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. Shak.
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