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Gaelic, aingeal, allied to Latin ignis 95b} Keep, "take thou no keep"--heed, "never mind 148f} Kirkton, familiar term for the village in which the country people had their church 94k} Ladysmock, Cardamine pratensis.

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  1. transitive verb To pay attention to; listen to and consider: "He did not heed my gibes, and chattered on” (Sean O'Faolain).
  2. intransitive verb To pay attention.
  3. noun Close attention; notice.

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  1. Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan.

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  1. from Middle English heden (preterit hedde), from Anglo-Saxon hēdan (preterit hēdde), heed, take care of, take charge of, take into possession (= Old Saxon hōdian, huodian = OFries. hōda, hūda = Dutch hoeden, heed, guard, = Middle Low German hoden, huden = Old High German huoten, Middle High German hüeten, German hüten, guard, protect), from hōd, feminine (not found) (= OFries. hōda, hūda, care, = Dutch hoede, feminine, = Middle Low German hode, hude, hote = Old High German huota, Middle High German huote, huot, German hut, feminine, heed, care); prob. connected with hōd, masculine, English hood (= Dutch hoed = German hut, a hat, hood), and perhaps with hæt, English hat; the orig. sense being apparently ‘cover, protect’: see hood and hat. For the vowel-change, cf. bleed, breed, feed, gleed.
  2. from Middle English hede, a later form, from the verb, taking the place of the orig. Anglo-Saxon *hōd, Middle English as if *hode, *hood: see heed, v.
 

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