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More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.

lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding. [Obs.] [The great light of day] suspense in heaven. Milton.

ss over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.

To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.

at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.

A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies. [R.] Milton.

igure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive i…

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

e; to instigate. Tempt not the brave and needy to despair. Dryden. Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire. Pope.

Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion.

end; to close. The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on zhis side heaven. South.

Same as Theave. [Prov. Eng.]

ssing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc.).

Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. [Prov. Eng.]

A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

ct of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe. Addison.

A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

s did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Gen. vi. 22. Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth. Milton.