A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. (Anat.)
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart!
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.
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain.
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.
Exploits done in the heart of France.
Peace subsisting at the heart
Of endless agitation.
Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
Eve, recovering heart, replied.
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another.
Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
That the spent earth may gather heart again.
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.
One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
And then show you the heart of my message.
A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart.
Phrases & Compounds
After one's own heart
conforming with one's inmost approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart.
At heart
in the inmost character or disposition; at bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man.
By heart
in the closest or most thorough manner; as, to know or learn by heart. “Composing songs, for fools to get by heart” (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn thoroughly).
to learn by heart
to memorize.
For my heart
for my life; if my life were at stake.
Heart bond
a bond in which no header stone stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid header fashion.
Heart and hand
with enthusiastic coöperation.
Heart hardness
hardness of heart; callousness of feeling; moral insensibility.
any marine, bivalve shell of the genus Cardium and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell; esp., the European Isocardia cor; -- called also heart cockle.
Heart sickness
extreme depression of spirits.
Heart and soul
with the utmost earnestness.
Heart urchin
any heartshaped, spatangoid sea urchin. See Spatangoid.