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One of the Trachearia.

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

Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present.

New; unprecedented; unparalleled. Swift.

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.

ch. Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden.

-- 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.

ent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

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.

An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. Itard.