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Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.

y; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv. 32.

Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend. -- True"-heart`ed*ness, n.

To cause to lose heart; to dishearten. [Obs.] Shak.

Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic. -- Warm"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint- hearted. "Weak-hearted enemies." Shak.

A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.

Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent. Ex. xxviii. 3.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

-- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. -- Ach"ing*ly, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. Longfellow.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

ur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.

e processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.