Definition of heave

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Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

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Star :: Star (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae..
Astrography :: Astrography (n.) The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult..
Sky :: Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural..
Harbor :: Harbor (n.) The mansion of a heavenly body.
Schematism :: Schematism (n.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea..
Heavenliness :: Heavenliness (n.) The state or quality of being heavenly.
Domify :: Domify (v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense..
Major :: Major (a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference]..
Mansion :: Mansion (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8..
Sainted :: Sainted (a.) Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
Wamble :: Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope..
Clarendon :: Clarendon (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.
House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition..
Sheaf :: Sheaf (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves..
Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
Place :: Place (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude..
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