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Hearts   /hɑrts/   Listen
Hearts

noun
1.
A form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades.  Synonym: Black Maria.



Heart

noun
1.
The locus of feelings and intuitions.  Synonym: bosom.  "Her story would melt your bosom"
2.
The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body.  Synonyms: pump, ticker.
3.
The courage to carry on.  Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk.  "You haven't got the heart for baseball"
4.
An area that is approximately central within some larger region.  Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle.  "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"
5.
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.  Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum.  "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"
6.
An inclination or tendency of a certain kind.  Synonym: spirit.
7.
A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines.
8.
A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal).
9.
A positive feeling of liking.  Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness.  "The child won everyone's heart" , "The warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home"
10.
A playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it.  "Hearts were trumps"



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"Hearts" Quotes from Famous Books



... description. At St. Denis the authorities came out to meet the king, dressed in robes of vermilion, and bearing splendid banners. The king was presented, as he passed through the gates, "with three crimson hearts, in one of which were two doves; in another, several small birds, which were let fly over his head; while the third was filled with violets and flowers, which were thrown over the lords ...
— Margaret of Anjou - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... a little depressed by this extravagance of light hearts. He did not think the money Denas got from her school warranted it, and he was heart-sick with the terrible fear that the busy season was at hand and that he had found nothing to do. Adam Oliver's two nephews from Cardiff had come to help him, and that shut one place; and neither ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... makes the most of either, remembering that wise maxim, Not too much of anything. For not only will he who is least solicitous about to-morrow best enjoy it when it comes, as Epicurus says, but also wealth, and renown, and power and rule, gladden most of all the hearts of those who are least afraid of the contrary. For the immoderate desire for each, implanting a most immoderate fear of losing them, makes the enjoyment of them weak and wavering, like a flame under the influence of a wind. But he whom reason enables to ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch

... north in the Primrose, cross Athabasca Lake, and enter the Rocher River. Thirty miles from Fort Chipewyan the Rocher, uniting with the main channel of the Peace, makes a resultant stream known as the Slave, down which we pass in an incomparable summer day, our hearts dancing within us for the clear joy of living. Poplars and willows alternate with white spruce (Picea canadensis) fully one hundred and fifty feet high and three feet in diameter. It is an ideal run,—this hundred miles between Fort Chipewyan and Smith's Landing, and we make ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave. The King cringed to his rival that he might trample on his people, sank into a viceroy of France, and pocketed, with complacent ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord


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