English Dictionary: heavyset | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hornyhead \Horn"y*head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any North American river chub of the genus {Hybopsis}, esp. {H. biguttatus}. | |
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Happy \Hap"py\, a. [Compar. {Happier}; superl. {Happiest}.] [From {Hap} chance.] 1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. --Boyle. 2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts. Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps. cxliv. 15. The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope. 3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. --Swift. {Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. {Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. [bd]Happy-go-lucky carelessness.[b8] --W. Black. | |
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Heavy \Heav"y\, a. [Compar. {Heavier}; superl. {Heaviest}.] [OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. h[94]figr, h[94]fugr. See {Heave}.] 1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught. 2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. --1 Sam. v. 6. The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. --Shak. Sent hither to impart the heavy news. --Wordsworth. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence. --Shak. 3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment. The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were. --Chapman. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. --Shak. 4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. --Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. --Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. --Is. lix. 1. 5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like. 6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder. But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. --Byron. 7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky. 8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like. 9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread. 10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food. 11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors. 12. With child; pregnant. [R.] {Heavy artillery}. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. {Heavy cavalry}. See under {Cavalry}. {Heavy fire} (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. {Heavy metal} (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Weight \Weight\, n. [OE. weght, wight, AS. gewiht; akin to D. gewigt, G. gewicht, Icel. v[91]tt, Sw. vigt, Dan. v[91]gt. See {Weigh}, v. t.] 1. The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc. Note: Weight differs from gravity in being the effect of gravity, or the downward pressure of a body under the influence of gravity; hence, it constitutes a measure of the force of gravity, and being the resultant of all the forces exerted by gravity upon the different particles of the body, it is proportional to the quantity of matter in the body. 2. The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds. For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes. --Shak. 3. Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business. [bd]The weight of this said time.[b8] --Shak. For the public all this weight he bears. --Milton. [He] who singly bore the world's sad weight. --Keble. 4. Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight. In such a point of weight, so near mine honor. --Shak. 5. A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight. 6. A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight. A man leapeth better with weights in his hands. --Bacon. 7. A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight. 8. (Mech.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. [Obs.] {Atomic weight}. (Chem.) See under {Atomic}, and cf. {Element}. {Dead weight}, {Feather weight}, {Heavy weight}, {Light weight}, etc. See under {Dead}, {Feather}, etc. {Weight of observation} (Astron. & Physics), a number expressing the most probable relative value of each observation in determining the result of a series of observations of the same kind. Syn: Ponderousness; gravity; heaviness; pressure; burden; load; importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Heavy metals}. (Chem.) See under {Metal}. {Heavy weight}, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. {Feather weight} (c), under {Feather}. Note: Heavy is used in composition to form many words which need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc. | |
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Caoutchouc \Caout"chouc\, n. [F. caoutchouc, from the South American name.] A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree {Siphonia elastica} or {Hevea caoutchouc}), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called {India rubber} (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and {gum elastic}. See {Vulcanization}. {Mineral caoutchouc}. See under {Mineral}. | |
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Hipshot \Hip"shot`\, a. [Hip + shot.] Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other. --L'Estrange. | |
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Hobbist \Hob"bist\, n. One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes. | |
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Hoppestere \Hop`pes*tere"\, a. An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as [bd]dancing (on the wave)[b8]; by others as [bd]opposing,[b8] [bd]warlike.[b8] --T. R. Lounsbury. | |
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Hopscotch \Hop"scotch`\, n. A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also {hoppers}. | |
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Hyopastron \Hy`o*pas"tron\, n. [Hyo- + plastron.] (Zo[94]l.) The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also {hyosternum}. | |
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Hypostasis \Hy*pos"ta*sis\, n.; pl. {Hypostases}. [L., fr. Gr. [?] subsistence, substance, fr. [?] to stand under; [?] under + [?] to stand, middle voice of [?] to cause to stand. See {Hypo-}, and {Stand}.] 1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing. 2. (Theol.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Note: The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. --Schaff-Herzog. 3. Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies. 4. (Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hypostasis \Hy*pos"ta*sis\, n.; pl. {Hypostases}. [L., fr. Gr. [?] subsistence, substance, fr. [?] to stand under; [?] under + [?] to stand, middle voice of [?] to cause to stand. See {Hypo-}, and {Stand}.] 1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing. 2. (Theol.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Note: The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. --Schaff-Herzog. 3. Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies. 4. (Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment. | |
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Hypostasize \Hy*pos"ta*size\, v. t. To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. --Coleridge. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hypostatique.] 1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. --Boyle. 2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson. 3. (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation. {Hypostatic union} (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. --Tillotson. | |
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7. (Mach.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection. 8. (Brewing) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on. {Hypostatic union} (Theol.) See under {Hypostatic}. {Latin union}. See under {Latin}. {Legislative Union} (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801. {Union}, [or] {Act of Union} (Eng. Hist.), the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707. {Union by the first}, [or] {second}, {intention}. (Surg.) See {To heal by the first, [or] second, intention}, under {Intention}. {Union down} (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by reversing the flag, or turning its union downward. {Union jack}. (Naut.) See {Jack}, n., 10. {Union joint}. (Mech.) (a) A joint formed by means of a union. (b) A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T. Syn: Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance; coalition; combination; confederacy. Usage: {Union}, {Unity}. Union is the act of bringing two or more things together so as to make but one, or the state of being united into one. Unity is a state of simple oneness, either of essence, as the unity of God, or of action, feeling, etc., as unity of design, of affection, etc. Thus, we may speak of effecting a union of interests which shall result in a unity of labor and interest in securing a given object. One kingdom, joy, and union without end. --Milton. [Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his image multiplied. In unity defective; which requires Collateral love, and dearest amity. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hypostatique.] 1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. --Boyle. 2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson. 3. (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation. {Hypostatic union} (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. --Tillotson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hypostatique.] 1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. --Boyle. 2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson. 3. (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation. {Hypostatic union} (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. --Tillotson. | |
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Hypostatically \Hy`po*stat"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a hypostatic manner. | |
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Hypostatize \Hy*pos"ta*tize\, v. t. 1. To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. --Pop. Sci. Monthly. 2. To attribute actual or personal existence to. --Sir W. Hamilton. | |
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d8Hyposternum \[d8]Hy`po*ster"num\, n.; pl. L. {Hyposterna}, E. {Hyposternums}. [Pref. hypo- + sternum.] (Anat.) See {Hypoplastron}. | |
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Hypoplastron \Hy`po*plas"tron\, n.; pl. {Hypoplastra}. [Pref. hypo- + plastron.] (Anat.) The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also {hyposternum}. | |
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d8Hyposternum \[d8]Hy`po*ster"num\, n.; pl. L. {Hyposterna}, E. {Hyposternums}. [Pref. hypo- + sternum.] (Anat.) See {Hypoplastron}. | |
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d8Manubrium \[d8]Ma*nu"bri*um\, n.; pl. L. {Manubria}, E. {Manubriums}. [L., handle, fr. manus hand.] 1. (Anat.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The proboscis of a jellyfish; -- called also {hypostoma}. See Illust. of {Hydromedusa}. | |
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Hypostome \Hy"po*stome\, d8Hypostoma \[d8]Hy*pos"to*ma\, n. [NL. hypostoma, fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + [?] mouth.] (Zo[94]l.) The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc. | |
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Hypostrophe \Hy*pos"tro*phe\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to turn round or back; [?] under + [?] to turn.] (Med.) (a) The act of a patient turning himself. (b) A relapse, or return of a disease. | |
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Hypostyle \Hy"po*style\, a. [Gr. [?] resting on pillars; [?] under + [?] a pillar.] (Arch.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak. | |
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Haubstadt, IN (town, FIPS 32512) Location: 38.20311 N, 87.57484 W Population (1990): 1455 (567 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47639 | |
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Hi Vista, CA Zip code(s): 93535 | |
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Hobgood, NC (town, FIPS 31860) Location: 36.02745 N, 77.39523 W Population (1990): 435 (186 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27843 | |
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Hoopeston, IL (city, FIPS 36061) Location: 40.46518 N, 87.67088 W Population (1990): 5871 (2550 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60942 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
heavyweight adj. [common] High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time. {EMACS} is a heavyweight editor; {X} is an _extremely_ heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's {elephantine} and a third's {monstrosity}. Oppose `lightweight'. Usage: now borders on techspeak, especially in the compound `heavyweight process'. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
heavyweight High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory use and startup time. {Emacs} is a heavyweight editor; {X} is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's {elephantine} and a third's monstrosity. Opposite: "lightweight". Usage: now borders on technical especially in the compound "heavyweight process". (1994-12-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
HPcode Stack-based intermediate language used by {HP} in many of its compilers for {RISC} and stack-based architectures. Supports {Fortran}, {Ada}, {Pascal}, {COBOL} and {C++}. Descended from Stanford's {U-code}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
HPCode-Plus A descendant of {HPcode} with {data type}s, developed to be an {ANDF} language. ["ANDF: Finally an UNCOL After 30 Years", M.E. Benitez, Jack Davidson 1991)]. (1995-03-16) |