Definition of heave

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Heave (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode..

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Northing :: Northing (n.) The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination.
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead..
Heaven :: Heaven (v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6..
Antisolar :: Antisolar (a.) Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180¡ distant from the sun.
Schematism :: Schematism (n.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.
High :: High (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
Heave :: Heave (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy..
Grace :: Grace (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.
Clarendon :: Clarendon (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.
Vertex :: Vertex (n.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead..
Talisman :: Talisman (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence..
Sabian :: Sabian (a.) Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies..
Primum Mobile :: Primum mobile () In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline..
Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude..
Epoch :: Epoch (n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860..
West :: West (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east..
Heliometry :: Heliometry (n.) The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer..
Aloft :: Aloft (adv.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven..
Mow :: Mow (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
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