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(héy),v.; pret. heaved or hove, pp. heaved, hove, formerly hoven, ppr. heaving. [ ult. H. captive, caitiff, capture, ete., capacious, capable, ete., accept, ete., receive, ete.: see capable, captive, ete.). Derivs. heavy], haft1, heft1, behoof, and perhaps haven: see these words.] JI, trans. 1. To raise; lift; hoist. They are the model of those men whose honours We heave our hands at when we hear recited. Beau. and Fl., Captain, i. 3. Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed. Milton, Comus, 1. 885, The curious custom known as heaving: on Easter Monday the men heaved the women, i. e., lifted them off the ground and ki ed them. Bicker dyke, p. 241. Especially—2. To lift with obvious effort; raise with exertion, as something heavy or resistant. This shoulder was ordain’d so thick to heave; And heave it shall some weight, or break my back. Shak., 3 Hen. VL, v. 7. 3+. To lift (a child) at baptism; baptize; also, to be sponsor for. Bot no sawle may thithen pas, Untyle it be als cleene als it fyrst was, When he was hofen at fount-stane, And hys crystendom thare had tane. Hampole, Handlyng Synne. 4. To weigh; heft. [Prov. Eng.]—5. To cause to swell or bulge upward; raise above the former or the surrounding level: often with up. The glittering finny swarms That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 923, Great gray hills heaved up round the horizon. Charlotte Bronté, Jane Lyre, v. 6. To elevate or elate in condition or feeling, as by the operation of some potent agency or some moving influence; exalt; promote; raise suddenly or forcibly to a higher state. Therfore hefe vp your hertis; hast you to saile; Sette furthe to the se; sitte no lengur. Destruction of Troy (B. E. T. §.), 1. 4603. Cicero’s book, where Cato was heaved up Equal with heaven. B. Jonson, Sejanus, tii. 1. Tradition they say hath taught them that for the prevention of growing schisme the Bishop was heav'd above the Presbyter. Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. Strong political excitement heaves a whole nation on to a higher platform of intellect and morality. W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 28. 7+. To increase. Qua folus lang wit uten turn, Oft his fote sal find a spurn; Reu his res than sal he sare, Or heuwen his harme with foli mare. Quoted in Alliterative Poems, ed. Morris (Glo .). 8. To bring up or forth with effort; raise from the breast or utter with the voice laboriously or painfully: as, to heave a sigh or a groan. She heav'd the name of father Pantingly forth. Shak., Lear, iv. 3. Heuaves abroad his cares in one good sigh. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 45. 9. To throw upward and outward; cast or to with force or effort; hurl or pitch, as with aim or purpose: as, to heave a stone; to heave the lead, [Chiefly naut. and colloq.] I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved overboard. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. The ships at first grounded two or three miles from the shore, yet (through the Lord’s great mercy) they were heaved by the seas near to the dry land. Winthrop, Hist. New England, IT. 293. 10. In geol., to throw or lift out of its place: said of the intersection of two veins, or of that of a cro -course with another vein. When a displacement of one or the other is caused by the intersection, one vein is said to heave the other out of its regular position. A vein may be thrown-out on meeting another vein, in a line which approaches either towards its inclination or its direction. The Cornish miners use two different terms to denote these two modes of rejection; for the first case they say the vein is heaved, for the second it is started, Ure, Dict., TIT. 300. 11. Naut., to draw or pull in any direction, as by means of a windla or capstan: as, to heave a ship ahead (that is, to bring her for heave + ward, when not under sail, by means of a cable — or other appliance); to heave up an anchor (to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere).— Hove apeak. See apeak.— To heave aback, to get (a ship) in such a position, by putting the helm down or hauling in the weather-braces, or both, that the wind acts on the forward surface of the sails.—To heave a cable short, to haul it in until the ship lies nearly over the anchor.— To heave a strain, to turn the capstan or windla till the rope hove upon bears a strain with full force at the windla .—To heave a ve el about, to put her on the other tack.— To heave a ve el down, to careen her for repairs by means of tackles from her masthead to the shore or to a hulk. The ship also was so leaky that I doubted it would be nece ary to heave her down at Batavia, which was another reason for making the best of our way to that place, Cook, Voyages, II. iii. 7. To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring (a ship's head) to the wind.—To heave out, to raise (the keel) out of the water by careening, in order to repair or clean it.—To heave the gorge. See gorge.—To heave the lead. See lead.— To heave the log, to ascertain a ship’s rate of sailing by the log and gla . See log.—To heave taut, to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope or chain becomes strained.— To heave to, to bring the head of (a ve el) to the wind; stop the headway of. We pa ed through a large fleet of merchantmen hove to under shelter of Cape de Gat. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xxviii. =Syn. 1 and 2, Hoist, Lift, etc. See raise. TL in trans. 1. To be raised, thrown, or forced up; rise; swell up; bulge out. Where ground beares naturally store of chamocks, the cheese that is made off from such ground the dayry-women cannot keep from heaving. Aubrey’s Wilts, MS. Royal Soc., p. 300. (Hall i well.) So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep. Milton, P. L., vii. 288, Itis of little use to expect clover as a permanent crop in wet soils, or those subject to heave by the annual winter frosts, New Amer. Farm Book, p. 132. 2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the waves of the sea, the lungs in difficult or painful breathing, the earth in an earthquake, ete. Dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xi. The minister's... mind was... to ed to and fro on that stormy deep of thought, heaving forever beneath the conflict of windy dogmas. O. W. Holmes, Elsie Venner, xvii. On the fourth [day] the wind fell, leaving the ship dismasted and heaving on vast billows. R. L, Stevens on, Master of Ballantrae, ii. 3. To pant, as after severe exertion; labor. He heaves for breath, which, from his lungs supply'd, And fetch’d from far, distends his lab’ring side. Dryden. The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wickliffe’s day.- Atterbury. 4, To make an effort to vomit; retch.— 5+. To mount.— 6}. To labor heavily; toil. But theron was to heven and to doone, Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1289. Heave ho! an exclamation used by sailors when heaving anchor, etc. Hence— With heave and ho, with slow steady exertion. They seem in punishing but slow, Yet pay they home at last with heave and how. Sir J. Haring ton, tr. of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, [xxxvii. 89. To heave att, to aim at; regard with hostile intent. They did not wish government quite taken away; only the king’s person they heaved at: him, for some purpose, they must needs have out of the way. Bp, Andrews, Sermons, IV, 12. In vain have some heaved at this office, which is fastned to the state with so considerable a revenue. Fuller, Ch. Hist., V. iv. 8. To heave at the Se dares See capstan.—To heave | in sight, to rise into the plane of vision; become visible while approaching or being approached, as a ship or other object at sea; come into view.; A dark line seemed to cro the western sky Afar and faint, and with the growing light Another land began to heave in sight. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 180. I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by every one on board as soon as I hove in sight. R. H. Dana, Jv., Before the Mast, -p. 2. To heave to, to bring a ve el to a standstill; make her lie to, See under I.—To heave together, to make a fishing-trip in partnership; be partners. (®is her men’s slang. ]