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Heave

To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort to lift to raise to hoist often with up as the wave heaved the boat on land...


Heave offering

An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar as the shoulder of the peace offering See Wave offering...


Heaves

A disease of horses characterized by difficult breathing with heaving of the flank wheezing flatulency and a peculiar cough broken wind...


Sheep-heaves

Sheep-heaves. 'Small plots of pasture often in the middle of a waste . . . the soil of which may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is certainly a private property, and is leased and sold as such.'-Cooke, Inclos. Acts, 44....


Boiling

Heated to the point of bubbling heaving with bubbles in tumultuous agitation as boiling liquid surging seething swelling with heat ardor or passion...


Breastband

A band for the breast Specifically Naut A band of canvas or a rope fastened at both ends to the rigging to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding...


Broken wind

The heaves...


Clarendon

A style of type having a narrow and heave face It is made in all sizes...


Embillow

To swell or heave like a wave of the sea...


Eyed

Heaving such or so many eyes used in composition as sharp eyed blue eyed dull eyed sad eyed ox eyed Juno myriad eyed...


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