Word Finder - hearts

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A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

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Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.

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The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.

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The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

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a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart

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Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

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• bravery
• nerve

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Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

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A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

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Listen, dear heart, we must go now.

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• honey
• sugar

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Personality, disposition.

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a cold heart

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A wight or being.

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A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.

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A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

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The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.

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The centre, essence, or core.

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Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.

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• crux
• gist

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To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.

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2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio

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• less than three
• love

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To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.

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To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.

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To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

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One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.

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A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.

Margaret's testified to the warm place he held in the hearts of people of all classes.

Well, tomorrow she could look to her hearts' content and it wouldn't be indecent.

He made no pretence to be a searcher of hearts and frequently declines to analyse motives.

He delivered the address on the death of Washington which contained the famous phrase, "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

To provide against the intended action of the first, Zaki detached his nephew, Ali Murad, at the head of his best troops to proceed with all speed to the north; and, as to the second, the seizure of such families of Sadiks followers as were then within the walls of the town, and other violent measures, struck such dismay into the hearts of the besieging soldiers that they dispersed and abandoned their leader to his fate.

Our beloved granddaughter, our thoughts of you will never die, always in our minds, always in our hearts.

The hearts taken by the heartless become Heartless themselves.

Airplanes filled with innocent hostages became guided missiles, aimed straight for our hearts.

And yet it is this placid kindly fresh-coloured old man who has come down to us as the author of that book the Imitation of Christ, which has been translated into more languages than any other book save the Bible, and which has moved the hearts of so many men of all nations, characters and conditions of life.

At one point on the coast the villagers everywhere were "soothing their wearied hearts with.

He has created works which will tug on hearts and intrigue the mind with the vivid imagery of his story telling.

Monday 2nd December sees the official launch of this new group to bring local people together to promote healthy hearts.

The indignation excited by Leo X.'s sale of indulgences, the moral rage stirred in Northern hearts by papal abominations in Rome, were external causes which precipitated the schism between Teutonic and Latin Christianity.

From time immemorial thera- savages have been accustomed to eat the hearts of lions and other wild animals, under the belief that they will thereby obtain courage and strength like that of the animal from which the heart had been taken, but in 1889 BrownSequard proposed to use testicular juice as a general tonic and stimulant.

At Rotterdam he drew all hearts to him by his eloquence and fervour in the pulpit, and his irrepressible activity as a pastor.

To how many sad hearts did he come like an angel, with the rich tones of his voice waking harmonics of hope, where before there had been despair and silence?

Let us toast to putting aside prejudice and following our hearts.

It has long been a place of pilgrimage to which Roman Catholics, especially from Austria, Bavaria and Swabia resort in large numbers, on account of a celebrated image of the Virgin Mary in the Holy Chapel, which also contains the hearts of some Bavarian princes in silver caskets.

They now began to feel themselves abandoned not only by man but by God; for an explosion of some of their gunpowder, on the morning of the 8th, by which Catesby and some others were scorched, struck terror into their hearts as a judgment from heaven.

Whatever in literature revealed the hearts of men was infinitely precious to him; and for this reason he professed almost a cult for St Augustine.

In the terrible "famine of St Luke" in 1835, Selassie still further won the hearts of his subjects by his wise measures and personal generosity; and by extending his hospitality to Europeans, he brought his country within the closer ken of civilized European powers.

Burke, who regarded him with great affection, said that he had "something high" in his nature, and that it was "a wild stock of pride on which the tenderest of all hearts had grafted the milder virtues."

The distress of his family, and his own patience, courage and piety, softened the hearts of his judges.

Many have already followed it, and conquering the lust and pride and anger of their own hearts, have become free from ignorance and doubt and wrong belief, have entered the calm state of universal kindliness, and have reached Nirvana even in this life.

Let us, the inhabitants of the Cape Colony, be swift to recognize that we are one people, cast together under a glorious flag of liberty, with heads clear enough to appreciate the freedom we enjoy, and hearts resolute to maintain our true privileges; let us desist from reproaching and insulting one another, and, rejoicing that we have this goodly land as a common heritage, remember that by united action only can we realize its grand possibilities.

There was withal a moral elevation in his spiritual philosophy which came home to the hearts of his hearers, and seemed to afford a ground for higher development in national literature and art, and even in politics, than the traditional philosophy of France had appeared capable of yielding.

The match, though his Norman barons sneered at it, gave him the hearts of all his English subjects, who supported him with enthusiasm, and not merely (as had been the case with Rufus) because they saw that a strong king would oppress them less than a factious and turbulent baronage.

Causes of They were bound to recur as long as the kings who the ruled on this side of the Channel were possessed of Hundred continental dominions, which lay as near, or nearer, to their hearts than their insular realm.

For these misgovernances the hearts of the people were turned from them that had the land in lule, and their blessing was turned to cursing.

Warbeck deserved all that he reaped, Edward of but the unlucky Clarences fate estranged many hearts from the king.

In January the death of Catherine had rejoiced the hearts of Henry and Anne Boleyn, but Annes happiness was short-lived.

Obviously Mrs. Anderson had something in mind and it wouldn't have been hearts or flowers.

The result was to turn the hearts of Marys people from herself, her church and her creed.

It was seen then that the queen, by her conduct and character, had gained a popularity which has had no parallel in history, and had won a place in the hearts of her subjects which perhaps no other monarch had ever previously enjoyed.

Meanwhile, the spread of the Reformation became the subject of much searching of hearts to pious Catholics.

He had already, in August 1549, at some risk, gone down with Lord Russell to turn the hearts of the rebels by preaching and persuasion, and two years later he was appointed bishop of Exeter by letters patent, on the compulsory retirement of his predecessor, Veysey, who had reached an almost mythical age.

In reality, he was a prince of wide knowledge and culture, knowing several languages and austere in morals; and although he cannot be acquitted of occasional harshness, he had the secret of winning the hearts of his subjects, who never refused him their support in times of difficulty.

Gudrun, however, avenged the death of her brothers by slaying the sons she had borne to Atli and causing him unwittingly to drink their blood and eat their hearts.

Their series writing credits include Hearts afire, Good Advice and Dream On.

That which the learned call Arminianism is nothing else but the carnal reason of men's hearts, which is enmity to God.

It tells us of a mighty struggle that is now going on for a moral ascendancy over the hearts of this world's population.

Artichoke hearts also add a wonderful flavor to salads, pasta dishes, vegetable bakes and pizzas.

Features ' i blame Elizabeth David ' He may have won OFM readers ' hearts with the peerless breakfasts at his Carluccio's Caff?

There are numerous nooks and shady bowers, where aching hearts may rest for hours.

The second study will involve 200 patients whose hearts are failing specifically because of dilated cardiomyopathy - a heart muscle disorder.

In my book Capturing Customers ' Hearts I identify 12 components that can build on the foundation of quality to give your business charisma.

The feeling once we'd passed this checkpoint lightened our hearts for we knew we were headed home.

Most of her work has her silver heart signature clasp or hearts of silver or crystal included somewhere!

The Holy Spirit, the great comforter, apply these truths to the hearts of the afflicted.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.