Word Meanings - HEARTSTRIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To affect at heart; to shock. "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to HEARTSTRIKE)
- 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 - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - HEARTBROKEN
Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - SHOCKDOG
See 1 - HEARTGRIEF
Heartache; sorrow. Milton. - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - 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. - AFFECTIVELY
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. - HEARTDEEP
Rooted in the heart. Herbert. - HEARTENER
One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTER
One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker. - HEARTSWELLING
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser. - SHOCK-HEADED
Having a thick and bushy head of hair. - AFFECTIVE
1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers. - HEART-ROBBING
1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning. - SHOCK
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - SWEETHEART
A lover of mistress. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - PIGEON-HEARTED
Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl. - INAFFECTED
Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. - 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. - DOUBLEHEARTED
Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.