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Word Meanings - HEARTSTRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.

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  • BROKERY
    The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • BROKEN BREAST
    Abscess of the mammary gland.
  • SUSTAINABLE
    Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • BROKEN
    1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
  • NERVELESSNESS
    The state of being nerveless.
  • HEARTEN
    1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
  • HEARTDEEP
    Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
  • HEARTENER
    One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
  • NERVELESS
    1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
  • TENDON
    A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
  • HEART-ROBBING
    1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
  • BROKERAGE
    1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. 2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
  • HEART'S-EASE
    A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • COUNTER BRACE
    The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • PIGEON-HEARTED
    Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
  • DISHEARTENMENT
    Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
  • KIND-HEARTED
    Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.

 

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