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luminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

t shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

The heaves.

ar structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." Milton.

carcass." South. Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. Oldham.

A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.

t of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

l. Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven. Preston

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

e. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

Equally eternal. -- Co`e*ter"nal*ly, adv. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. Milton.