Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male deer, especially a male red deer over five years old.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The male of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, the female of which is called hind; a stag, especially an adult stag or male red deer after its fifth year, when the sur-royal or crown-antler has appeared. The term belongs properly to the species named, but is extended to related kinds of deer. See antler, hind, stag.
- n. In heraldry, a stag used as a bearing. It is taken as a stag in its sixth year or older, but the word stag is not used in blazon.
- n. An obsolete spelling of heart.
- A simplified spelling of heart.
Wiktionary
- n. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after its fifth year.
- n. Obsolete spelling of heart.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under buck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943)
- n. a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- n. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)
Etymologies
- See heart (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English heorot; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, now," laughed Maudlin, "it has at least been seen that the hart is the whitest of harts.”
“Well, now,' laughed Maudlin, 'it has at least been seen that the hart is the whitest of harts.”
“That's what we call the hart's tongue," said he, "though I fancy they give them all different names in different places.”
“On the one hand, Wordsworth of course simply hopes that in a world where the death of a hart is signified by nature the lives of humans will receive a similarly blessed accounting.”
“Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them, &c.”
“Wherefore being pricked in hart for my undutifullnesse, this way I studie to redeeme my peace, first by repentance towards God, humbly and often craving his pardon for this my offence: secondly by studying how to shew double love to my children, to make them amends for neglect of this part of love to them, when they should have hung on my breasts, & have beene nourished in mine owne bosome: thirdly by doing my indeavour to prevent many christian mothers from sining in the same kinde, against our most loving, and gratious God.”
“Jonson for "a hart of ten"] If the word hart be right, I do not see any use of the latter quotation.”
“It wasn't because it was Kaled-a-in at all-it was because a hart is a hunted creature, and because you hoped that the cold of winter would close around you and keep you from ever feeling anything again.”
“I neuer saw any man daunce that was sober and his right wits, but there by your leaue he failed, not our young Courtiers will allow it, besides that it is the most decent and comely demeanour of all exultations and reioycements of the hart, which is no lesse naturall to man then to be wise or well learned, or sober.”
“In the meantime, Virginia being a little rested, she gathered from the trunk of an old tree, which overhung the bank of the river, some long leaves of the plant called hart's tongue, which grew near its root.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hart’.
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I can haz cheezeburgerisms
dis iz y u cant spelcaturday, haz, habn't, derp, derpy, kitteh, teh, cyoot, mai, baw, kai, ai and 381 more...
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harmonygritz's Cross Words
Words discovered while doing puzzles. Includes puns, e.g. taper vs. tapir.
hodad, hart, avocet, cahier, blackbird, brace, fetor, Bren, Rialto, bijou, liveried, stentor and 64 more...
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nacsnorlax's list
for word's sake
press, wild, hart, decay, grudge, juggernaut, oblivion, tender, scent, suzanne, rien, c'est
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English Counties, Districts, Boroughs
northumberland, tyne and wear, newcastle upon tyne, gateshead, north tyneside, south tyneside, sunderland, cumbria, carlisle, allerdale, eden, copeland and 348 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (H)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
haberdashery, hailstone, halcyon, halibut, halo, hamadryad, hammock, harangue, harbour, harebell, harlequin, harp and 104 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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noble mythical words
halcyon, yore, chevalier, geas, dour, clarion, codex, selkie, mythic, rime, hoarfrost, eldritch and 112 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Islands of New York City
coney, staten, city, manhattan, ellis, governors, hart, liberty, long, roosevelt, hoffman, swinburne and 29 more...
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Animal Crackers
camel, dromedary, cabbit, doglet, wren, lynx, ermine, capybara, magpie, mallard, heron, loach and 33 more...
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Animals
And things having to do with them.
gib, glome, doddy, fetlock, ptarmigan, eyrie, hock, lout, cygnet, hart, hind, warren and 16 more...
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Miscellany, pt. h
hottentottentente..., honorificabilitud..., halithere, haruspex, hegemony, horripilate, homodox, heterodox, holmquistite, hormé, halinous, haole and 39 more...
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Shakespeare
surfeite, hart, cloistress, abjure, coistrel, distaff, prolixious
Tweets
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harmonygritz Adding to my Cross Words list due to the following punny clue: "Deer hart, wish you were here..." (Mancini, Livingston & Evans) Oct 25, 2011