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To petrify. [Obs.] Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall (1646).

r obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify y…

e manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression. "Phrases of the hearth." Tennyson. Thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst. Shak.

Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.

Pigeon-hearted.

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." Shak.

aining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. "Pious hearts." Milton. "Pious poetry." Johnson. Where was the martial brother's pious care Pope.

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.

hepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.

Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11.

Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

With, or with the sound of, alternating light beats; as, his heart went pitter-patter.

ave place, to have a station, room, or seat; as, such desires can have no place in a good heart. -- To take place. (a) To come to pass; to occur; as, the ceremony will not take place. (b) To take precedence or priority. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." Berkeley. "But none of the…

To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.

Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.

y with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays. The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. Cheyne.

wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason. South.

The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.