To Heave. v.n.
- To pant; to breathe with pain.
'Tis such as you,
That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh
At each his needless heavings; such as you
Nourish the cause of his awaking. Shakesp. Winter's Tale.He heaves for breath, which, from his lungs supply'd,
And fetch'd from far, distends his lab'ring side. Dryden. - To labour.
The church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wickliff's days. Atterbury.
- To rise with pain; to swell and fall.
Thou hast made my curdled blood run back,
My heart heave up, my hair to rise in bristles. Dryden.The wand'ring breath was on the wing to part;
Weak was the pulse, and hardly heav'd the heart. Dryden.No object affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean: I cannot see the heaving of this prodigious bulk of waters, even in a calm, without a very pleasing astonishment. Addison's Spectator.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. Prior.
The heaving tide
In widen'd circles beats on either side. Gay's Trivia. - To keck; to feel a tendency to vomit.
