Definitions for the word "heart" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 hollow muscular organ maintaining the circulation of blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation. 2 region of the heart; the breast. 3 a centre of thought, feeling, and emotion (esp. Love). B capacity for feeling emotion (has no heart). 4 a courage or enthusiasm (take heart). B mood or feeling (change of heart). 5 a central or innermost part of something. B essence (heart of the matter). 6 compact tender inner part of a lettuce etc. 7 a heart-shaped thing. B conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top. 8 a playing-card of the suit denoted by a red figure of a heart. B (in pl.) This suit. at heart 1 in one''s inmost feelings. 2 basically. Break a person''s heart overwhelm a person with sorrow. By heart from memory. Give (or lose) one''s heart (often foll. By to) fall in love (with). Have the heart (usu. With neg.; foll. By to + infin.) Be insensitive or hard-hearted enough (didn''t have the heart to ask him). Take to heart be much affected by. To one''s heart''s content see *content1. With all one''s heart sincerely; with all goodwill. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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