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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

... fears of Bothwell had vanished. We had shaken him off and held the winning hand in the game we had played with him. The tang of the sea spume, of the salt-laden spray was on our lips; the songs of youth were in our hearts. ...

— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... real home of my own, and someone to like me best. Preachey people would say that it is wrong of me to want to be first, and that I should be quite content to take a lower place, but I can't think that can be true where love is concerned, else why did God put this longing in women's hearts? Anyway, I've found out that love—the best kind of love—is His gift, and if it comes to me at all it shall be as His gift. I won't steal it! Poor, darling, unselfish Rachel, for your sake I must guard my thoughts as well as ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... believe it is the Lord's own truth. And true it is also that our country should do more to support the brave hearts that fight ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... apply the Undulatory Theory to their elucidation. For a long time investigators were compelled to employ plates of tourmaline for this purpose, and the progress they made with so defective a means of inquiry is astonishing. But these men had their hearts in their work, and were on this account enabled to extract great results from small instrumental appliances. For our present purpose we need far larger apparatus; and, happily, in these later times this need has been to a great extent satisfied. We have ...

— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall

... upon thousands do for me? Hearts, you know, Lady Anne, are to be won only by radiant eyes. Bought hearts your ladyship certainly would not recommend. They're such poor things—no wear at all. Turn them which way you will, you can ...

— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth

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