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HEART'S EASE

Specialty Definition: HEART'S EASE

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Literature

Heart's Ease The viola tricolor. It has a host of fancy names; as, the "Butterfly flower," "Kiss me quick," a "Kiss behind the garden gate," "Love in idleness," "Pansy," "Three faces under one hood," the "Variegated violet," "Herba Trinitatis." The quotation annexed will explain the popular tradition of the flower: -
"Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with loves
Wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness ...
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make a man or woman madly doat
Upon the next live creature that it sees."
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

HEART'S EASE. Gin. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: HEART'S EASE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Content

Noun: content, contentment, contentedness; complacency, satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind; serenity; cheerfulness; ray of comfort; comfort; (well-being).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HEART'S EASE

Specialty definitions using "HEART'S EASE": Friday and the United States. (references)

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Modern Translation: HEART'S EASE

Language Translations for "HEART'S EASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stedmoderblomst (pansy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

driekleurig viooltje (pansy), akkerviooltje (field pansy, field violet, pansy). (various references)

   

French

  

viola tricolor, pensée sauvage, pensée. (various references)

   

German

  

Stiefmütterchen (pansies, pansy, Viola), Dreifaltigkeitsblume (pansy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιόλα η τρίχρωμη (pansy, wild pansy, wild violet), βιολέτα (pansy), μενεξές (violet), πανσές (pansy), ίο το τρίχρωμο (pansy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

viola del pensiero (pansy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

braag chooag. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eart'shay easeay

   

Portuguese

  

amor perfeito (pansy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trinitaria (field pansy, field violet, pansy), pensamiento (contemplation, deliberation, foreboding, formulation, judgement, judgment, pansy, reflection, reflexion, thing, think, thinking, thought). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự thanh thản của tâm h"n (hearts-ease). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: HEART'S EASE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

viola tricolor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: HEART'S EASE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-a-e-e-e-h-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: heartsease.

-3 letters: esterase, hetaerae, hetaeras, sheerest, sheeters, tesserae.

-4 letters: aerates, aethers, easters, hearses, heaters, hetaera, rashest, reheats, reseats, searest, seaters, seethes, sheeter, teasers, tessera, trashes.

-5 letters: aerate, aether, aretes, arhats, assert, asters, earths, easter, eaters, erases, esters, ethers, haeres, harass, hastes, haters, hearse, hearts, heater, hereat, rashes, reatas, reests, reheat, reseat, resees, resets, reshes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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