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.