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Available Definitions:
1) - imp. & p. p. of Heave.
2) v. i. & t. - To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
3) v. i. - To hover around; to loiter; to lurk.
4) v. t. - To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
5) v. t. - To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
6) v. i. - To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
7) 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.
8) v. i. - To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
9) v. i. - To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
10) n. - An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
11) n. - An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.
12) n. - A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
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