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Word Meanings - HEARTSTRIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To affect at heart; to shock. "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.

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  • 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.

 

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