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Heft   /hɛft/   Listen
verb
Heft  v. t.  (past & past part. hefted, obs. heft; pres. part. hefting)  
1.
To heave up; to raise aloft. "Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft."
2.
To prove or try the weight of by raising. (Colloq.)


noun
Heft  n.  Same as Haft, n. (Obs.)


Heft  n.  
1.
The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion. (Obs.) "He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts."
2.
Weight; ponderousness. (Colloq.) "A man of his age and heft."
3.
The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. (Colloq. U. S.)


Heft  n.  (pl. Ger. hefte)  A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook; also, a part of a serial publication. "The size of "hefts" will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost about 15 marks."





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"Heft" Quotes from Famous Books



... been above three and a half inches long, by one and a quarter wide, at its broadest part. The heft, where it had been hollowed to hold ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... Babylonische Texte, Heft VI., B, of which K. B., iv., pp. 200-3, gives transcriptions and translations of two. Kohler-Peiser discuss eight in Aus Babylonischen Rechtsleben and add one more. Strassmaier published two from the Liverpool ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... said in a strangely hushed voice, "Woman, I've heard tell that you have a hankerin' for curiosities and old-timey things. I keep a few handy so's I don't get above my raisin'." He reached under the counter. "Here, woman, heft this!" He placed in my hands Devil Anse's long-barreled gun. "Scrutinize them notches on the barrel. That there first one is Harmon McCoy. Year of sixty-three," he ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... was called by Professor Hensen to P. E. Muller's work on Humus in 'Tidsskrift for Skovbrug,' Band iii. Heft 1 and 2, Copenhagen, 1878. He had, however, no opportunity of consulting Muller's work. Dr. Muller published a second paper in 1884 in the same periodical—a Danish journal of forestry. His results have also been published in German, in a volume entitled 'Studien uber die naturlichen ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin
... a look!" I breaks in. "Does this one size up like he was a child eater? Here, heft him once." And I ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford


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