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on; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout. List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air. Milton.

ion; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

nure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.

That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.

To listen; to hearken. [Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a d…

To hearken. Tennyson.

To play on the harp. I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. Rev. xiv. 2.

three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

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

The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.

occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. Macaulay.

rreligious person. If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. V. Knox. The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. Ask of me, and I shall…

ively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2. Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear. Shak. The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton.

k. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

ient regard. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard. Heb. ii. 1.

as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.

lood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.