Hence will I drag thee beadlong by the heels, Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave. Shaks. HE ADMOULD-SHOT. n. s. [head, mould, and shot.] This is when the sutures of the skull, generally the coronal, ride; that is, have their edges shot over one another; which is frequent in infants, and occasions convulsions and death.

Quincy.

HEADPIECE. . . [head and piece.] 1. Armour for the head; helmet; morion. I pulled off my headpiece, and humbly entreated her pardon, or knowledge why she was cruel. Sidney. The word is giv'n; with eager speed they lace The shining beadpiece, and the shield embrace. Dryden.

A reason for this fiction of the one-eyed Cyclops, was their wearing a headpiece, or martial vizor, that had but one sight. Broome. This champion will not come into the field, before his great blunderbuss can be got ready, his old rusty breastplate scoured, and his cracked beadpiece ended.

Swift.

2. Understanding; force of mind. 'Tis done by some severals Of beadpiece extraordinary, lower messes Perchance are to this business purblind. Shaksp. Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains. HEADQUARTERS. n. s. [head and quarters.] The place of general rendezvous, or lodgment for soldiers. This is properly two words.

Prideaux.

Collier.

Those spirits, posted upon the out-guards, immediately scour off to the brain, which is the beadquarters, or office of intelligence, and there they make their report. HEADSHIP. n. s. [from head.] Dignity; authority; chief place. HEADSMAN. 2. 5. [head and man.] Executioner; one that cuts off heads.

Rods broke on our associates bleeding backs, And beadsmen lab'ring 'till they blunt their ax? Dryden. HEADSTALL. n. s. [bead and stall.] Part of the bridle that covers the head.

His horse with a half-cheek'd bit, and a beadstall of sheep's leather, which being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots. Shakspeare. HEADSTONE. n. s. [head and stone.]

The first or capital stone.
The stone, which the builders refused, is be-
come the beadstone.
Psalms.

HEADSTRONG. adj. [head and strong.] Unrestrained; violent; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; as a horse whose head cannot be held in.

An example, for beadstrong and inconsiderate zeal, no less fearful than Achitophel for proud and irreligious wisdom. Hooker. How now, my beadstrong! where have you been gadding?

-Where I have learnt me to repent the sin

Of disobedient opposition.

Shakspeare.

But such a beadstrong potent fault it is,

That it but mocks reproof.

Shakspeare.

He ill aspires to rule

Milton.

Cities of men or headstrong multitudes,
Subject himself to anarchy within.
There's no opposing the torrent of a beadstrong
multitude.
L'Estrange.
Now let the headstrong boy my will control:
Virtue's no slave of man; no sex confines the

soul: VOL. II.

Rash; precipitate; hasty; violent s
ungovernable; hurried on with passion.
Take pity of your town and of your people,
While yet the cool and temp'rate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of beady murther, spoil, and villany. Shakspeare,
I am advised what I say:

Neither disturb'd with the effect of wine,
Nor, beady rash, provok'd with raging ire;
Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.
Shakspeare

I'll forbear,

And am fall'n out with my more beady will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.

Shakspeare

Never came reformation in a flood
With such a beady current scow'ring faults;
Nor ever hydra-headed wilfulness
So soon did lose his seat.

Shakspeare. To HEAL. v. a. [balgan, Gothick; hælan, Saxon; heelen, Dutch.]

1. To cure a person; to restore from hurt or sickness.

I will restore health, and heal thee of thy wounds. Jeremiah.

Who would not believe that our Saviour bealed the sick, and raised the dead, when it was published by those who themselves often did the Addison. same miracles.

Physicians, by just observations, grow up to an honourable degree of skill in the art of healing. Watts.

2. To cure a wound or distemper. Thou hast no healing medicines. Jeremiah. S s

.

Infirmity doth still neglect all oflice, Whereto our health is bound. Shakspeare. 2. Welfare of mind; purity; goodness; principle of salvation.

There is no health in us. Common Prayer. The best preservative to keep the mind in bealth is the faithful admonition of a friend.

3. Salvation spiritual and temporal.

Bacon.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint? Psalms.

4. Wish of happiness used in drinking. Come, love and health to all;

I drink to th' general joy of the whole table.

Shakspeare. He asked leave to begin two healths: the fist was to the king's mistress, and the second to his wife. Horvel.

For peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl to Casar's health. Dryd. HEALTHFUL. adj. [health and full.] 1. Free from sickness.

Adam knew no disease, so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him: Nature was his physician, and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality.

2. Well disposed.

South.

Such an exploit have I in hand, Had you an bealthful ear to hear it. Shakspeare. 3. Whol some; salubrious.

Many good and healthful airs do appear by habitation and proofs, that differ not in smell

from other airs.

Bacon.

While they pervert pure nature's healthful rules To loathsome sickness; worthily since they God's image did not reverence in themselves. Milton.

Our healthful food the stomach labours thus, At first embracing what it straight doth crush.

Dryden.

4. Salutary; productive of salvation. Pour upon them the healthful spirit of thy Common Prayer. grace. HEALTHFULLY. adv. [from healthful.]

in,

And there be strangl'd ere my Romeo comes! Shakspear

HEALTHY. adj. [from health.] 1. Enjoying health; free from sickness; hale; sound.

The husbandman returns from the field, and from manuring his ground, strong and bealth, because innocent and laborious.

Temperance, industry, and a publick spirit, running through the whole body of the people in Holland, hath preserved an infant commonwealth, of a sickly constitution, through so may dangers, as a much more healthy one could never have struggled against without those advantages Steift.

1

Air and exercise contribute to make the Arbuthe mal bealthy. 2. Conducive to health; wholesome. Gardening or husbandry, and working in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a may Leckt. of study or business.

HEAM. 7. S.

In beasts, the same as the afterbirth in women.

HEAP. n. s. [heap, Saxon; hoop, Dutch and Scottish,]

1. Many single things thrown together; a pile; an accumulation.

The way to lay the city flat,
And bury all which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.

Shakspert

The dead were fallen down by heaps, one upo

another.

Wing

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dry, Venice in its first beginnings had only a feir heaps of earth for its dominions.

"Tis one thing, only as a beap is one.

Blackmert

2. A crowd; a throng; a rabble. A cruel tyranny; a heap of vassals and slaves, no freemen, no inheritance, no stirp or ancient

families.

Bacon

3. Cluster; number driven together. An universal cry resounds aloud;

The sailors run in beaps, a helpless crowd. Dryd. To HEAP. v. a. [from the noun.]

1. To throw on heaps; to pile; to throw together.

Heap on wood, kindle the fire.

1. To accumulate; to lay up.

Ezekiel

Though the wicked beap up silver as the dust, and raiment as the clay; but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. Job. How the credit was, wherein that oracle great was preserved, may be gathered from the vast riches which were there heaped up from the offerings of all the Grecian nations. Temple. They who will make profession of painting, must beap up treasures out of their reading, and there will find many wonderful means of raising themselves above others.

3. To add to something else.

For those of old,

And the late dignities beap'd up to them, We rest your hermits.

Dryden.

Shakspeare.

Hr'APER. n. s. [from beap.] One that
makes piles or heaps.
HEAPY. adj. [from heap.] Lying in heaps.
Where a dim gleam the paly lanthorn throws
O'er the mid pavement, heapy rubbish grows.

Gay.

Scarce his head Rais'd o'er the beapy wreath, the branching elk Lies slumb'ring sullen in the white abyss. Thomson.

To HEAR. v. n. [hýnan, Saxon; hooren, Dutch.]

1. To enjoy the sense by which sounds are distinguished.

Sound is nothing but a certain modulation of the external air, which, being gathered by the external ear, beats, as is supposed, upon the membrana tympani, which moves the four little. bones in the tympanum: in like manner as it is beat by the external air, these little bones move the internal air which is in the tympanum and vestibulum; which internal air makes an impression upon the auditory nerve in the labyrinth and cochlea, according as it is moved by the little bones in the tympanum: so that, according to the various reflexions of the external air, the internal air makes various impressions upon the auditory nerve, the immediate organ of bearing: and these different impressions represent different sounds. Quincy.

The object of bearing is sound, whose variety is so great, that it brings in admirable store of intelligence.

Holder.

Princes cannot see far with their own eyes, nor bear with their own ears. Temple. 2. To listen; to hearken to: as, he heard

with great attention.

So spake our mother Eve, and Adam beard, Well-pleas'd, but answer'd not.

Great laughter was in heav'n,

Milton.

And looking down, to see the hubbub strange, And bear the din.

Milton.

3. To be told; to have an account: with

of.

On earth

Who against faith or conscience can be beard Infallible? Miltons

7. To acknowledge a title. A Latin phrase.

Or bear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?

Milton'

Hear'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth?

Prier.

HEARD signifies a keeper, and is sometimes initial; as heard-beart, a glorious keeper: sometimes final, as cynebeard, a royal keeper. Gibson's Camden. It is now written herd: as, cow-herd, a cowkeeper; hynd, Saxon. HEARER. 2. s. [from hear.] 1. One who hears.

And so was she dalled wi hal, that we could come so near as to hear her speeches, and yet she not perceive the bearers of her lamentation. Sidney.

St. John and St. Matthew, which have recorded these sermons, heard them; and being bearers, did think themselves as well respected as the pharisees. Hooker.

Words, be they never so few, are too many, when they benefit not the bearer. Hooker. The bearers will shed tears And say, Alas! it was a piteous deed! Shaksp. Tell thou the lamentable fall of me, And send the bearers weeping to their beds. Shakspeare. 2. One who attends to any doctrine or discourse orally delivered by another : as, the bearers of the gospel.

3. One of a collected audience.

Plays in themselves have neither hopes nor

Her bearers had no share In all she spoke, except to stare. HEARING. 2. s. [from hear.] 1. The sense by which sounds are perceived.

Bees are called with sound upon brass, and therefore they have hearing. Bacon's Nat. Histe

2. Audience.

The French ambassador upon that instant Crav'd audience; and the hour, I think, is come To give him bearing. 3. Judicial trial.

Shakspeare.

Agrippa and Bernice entered into the place of bearing.

Acts. The readers are the jury to decide according to the merits of the cause, or to bring it to another bearing before some other court. Dryden. Those of different principles may be betrayed to give you a fair bearing, and to know what you have to say for yourself. Addison.

4. Note by the ear; reach of the ear.

If we profess, as Peter did, that we love the Lord, and profess it in the bearing of men; charity is prone to hear all things, and therefore charitable men are likely to think we do so. Heeler. In our bearing the king charged thee, beware that none touch Absalom. 2 Samuel.

You have been talked of since your travels much,

And that in Hamlet's bearing, for a quality Wherein they say you shine. Shaksp. Hamlet. The fox had the good luck to be within bearing L'Estrange. To HE ARKEN. v. n. [heapenian, Sax.] 3. To listen; to listen eagerly or curiously.

The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for, Her father keeps from access of suitors. Shaksp. He bearkens after prophecies and dreams.

Shakspeare.

They do me too much injury, That ever said I hearken'd for your death: If it were so, I might have let alone Th' insulting hand of Douglas over you. Shaksp. The gaping three-mouth'd dog forgets to snarl, The furies bearken and their snakes uncurl.

Dryden. Louder and yet more loud I hear the alarms Of human cries:

I mount the terras, thence the town survey, And hearken what the fruitful sounds convey. Dryden.

He who makes much necessary, will want mach; and, wearied with the difficulty of the attainment, will bearken after any expedient that offers to shorten his way to it. Rogers. 2. To attend; to pay regard.

Hearken unto me thou son of Zippor. Numb. Those who put passion in the place of reason, neither use their own, nor bearken to other people's reason, any farther than it suits their humour. Locke.

There's not a blessing individuals find, But some way leans and bearkens to the kind.

Popco

Lis

HE ́ARKENER. N. s. [from hearken.] tener; one that hearkens. HEARSAY. n. s. [bear and say.] Report; rumour; what is not known otherwise than by account from others.

For prey these shepherds two he took, Whose metal stiff he knew he could not bend With bearsay pictures, or a window look. Sidney, He affirms by hearsay, that some giants saved themselves upon the mountain Baris in Armenia. Raleigh's History. All the little scramblers after fame fall upon him, publish every blot in his life, and depend upon hearsay to defame him. Addison. HEARSE. n. s. [Of unknown etymology.] See HERSE.

1. A carriage in which the dead are con. veyed to the grave.

2. A temporary monument set over a grave.

To add to your laments Wherewith you now bedew king Henry's heart, I must inform you of a dismal fight. HEART. n. s. [heont, Saxon; hertz, German.]

Shakip

1. The muscle which, by its contraction and dilatation, propels the blood through the course of circulation, and is therefore considered as the source of vital motion.

2. It is supposed in popular language to be the seat sometimes of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of hones ty, or baseness.

He with providence and courage so passed over all, that the mother took such spiteful grief at it, that her heart brake withal, and she died. Sidney. Thou would'st have left thy dearest beart blood there,

Rather than made that savage duke thine heir, And disinherited thine only son. Shaksp Snakes in my heart blood warm'd, that sting my heart.

Shakspeare Our battle is more full of names than yours, Our men more perfect in the use of arms, Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; Then reason wills our bearts should be as good. Shakspeare

I thank you for my venison, master Shallow. -Master Page, much good do it your good Shakspeare But since the brain doth lodge the pow'rs of

heart.

We all set our bearts at rest, since whatever comes from above is for the best. L'Estrange The only true zeal is that which is guided by a good light in the head, and that which consists of good and innocent affections in the heart. Sprat

Prest with beart corroding grief and years, To the gay court a rural shed prefers. Pep 3. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.

Barley being steeped in water, and turne upon a dry floor, will sprout half an inch; and if it be let alone, much more, until the beart he Bacon

Out.