Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Peace of mind.
- n. A hybrid plant derived from crossing certain species of the genus Viola and having small, spurred, variously colored flowers.
Wiktionary
- n. A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy.
Examples
“I have, also, reason to believe that humble-bees are indispensableto the fertilisation of the heartsease (Violatricolor), for other beesfo not visit this flower.”
“I've also put in a small strawberry patch and some heartsease.”
“Straying further, my eye was attracted by the sight of some heartsease that peeped through the rocks.”
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
“The flowers were familiar, blooms I had known in England: golden and purple heartsease, little blue forget-me-nots.”
“The heady floral scent of rose and heartsease, plus the spice of yemonja root.”
“Oh, is there any heartsease left, or any rosemary?”
“Hadria carried still the drooping yellow heartsease that the little girl had given her.”
“Little Martha ran up and offered her a wild heartsease which she had found on one of the graves.”
“One sees in imagination the solemn, round-shouldered hills standing out grim in the thin spring sunshine, their black sides slashed and lined with snow; later, one pictures these hills decked with heartsease and blue-bells a-swing in the summer breeze, or rich with the purple bloom of heather; and, again, one imagines them clothed in November mists, or white and ghost-like, shrouded in swirling clouds of snow.”
“At Oakley Hall we did a great deal -- eat some sandwiches all over mustard, admired Mr. Bramston's porter, and Mr.. Bramston's transparencies, and gained a promise from the latter of two roots of heartsease, one all yellow and the other all purple, for you.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heartsease’.
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 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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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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monica's list
just words i think are pretty.
luminous, iridescent, crestfallen, wanderlust, autumn, autumnal, spark, candescence, exaltations, merry, empathy, tainted and 96 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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Double diphthongs, etc.
Words with repeated diphthongs or other pairs of vowels, with no other vowels.
aeae, aiai, aoao, auau, ayay, eaea, eiei, eoeo, eueu, eyey, iaia, ieie, ioio, iuiu, oaoa, oeoe, oioi, ouo...chaetae, airmail, gainsaid, hairbrain, hairtail, jailbait, maimai, mainsail, maintain, zaikai, chainmail, braindrain and 201 more...
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botany for amateurs
edelweiss, heartsease, cherry blossom, crocus, belladonna, hibiscus, baby's breath, snapdragon, black-eyed susan, clover, mulch, peat and 91 more...
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Emily Dickensonian
words that emulate her pure hardcore beauty.
heartsease, philodendron, crocheted tea-cosy, tomb, rootworm, thistledown
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nouns - positive
these are nouns that are nice
knickerbockers, winterer, plenum, moonglade, volery, sweven, réchauffé, ruelle, heartsease, brisance, euneirophrenia, springlet and 5 more...
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flora and fauna
snapdragon, broomcorn, mollusk, moss, baleen, sorrel, bittersweet, thistle, heliotrope, indigo, persimmon, patchouli and 21 more...
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mary, mary, quite contrary
jonquil, cypress, hydrangea, phlox, clematis, japonica, willow, columbine, petunia, lianas, hosta, magnolia and 47 more...
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Words for D
either describe D or would be good in his writings!
despumate, eisegesis, badaud, saccharine, heartsease, ineffable, manship, maven, risible, literati, crimson, pugilist and 41 more...
Tweets
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grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
chained_bear "What infinite heartsease must kings neglect that private men enjoy?" --William Shakespeare, Henry V (unless it's Henry VI...) Feb 5, 2007