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Definition of Heartsease
1. Noun. A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.
Generic synonyms: Viola
2. Noun. Violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet.
3. Noun. Common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers.
4. Noun. The absence of mental stress or anxiety.
Generic synonyms: Quietness, Quietude, Tranquility, Tranquillity
Derivative terms: Pacify
Definition of Heartsease
1. n. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling.
Definition of Heartsease
1. Noun. A common European wild flower, ''Viola tricolor''; the wild pansy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heartsease
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartsease
Literary usage of Heartsease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The old folk- name, heartsease, is also associated with the familiar place ...
He pictures the heartsease or Viola tricolor with small violet-like flowers ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1888)
"heartsease AND RUE.*—To the reader who is quick to apprehend, there is in each
one of the works of a writer of genius a subtle flavor which marks the ..."
3. A Lover's Breast-knotby Katharine Tynan by Katharine Tynan (1896)
"heartsease you gave me, richer, rarer Than any heartsease blowing, growing.
Not Death shall make me less the wearer Of the dear heartsease of your sowing. ..."
4. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"heartsease. There are two notes down there, somewhere, that I never could ...
heartsease. I killed him. [Very quietly, and trying the tune again at once. ..."
5. On Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature: Being Six by Thomas Henry Huxley (1863)
"The humble bees, on the other hand, are direct helpers of some plants, such as
the heartsease and red clover, which are fertilized by the visits of the bees ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"Fly Away Fairies " is by ihe talented author of " heartsease," Miss L. Clark- son.
It is a rich mass of color, fairies, and blossoms, both inside and ..."
7. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1905)
"Cl. (mended, Charles Dickens's copy, with his book-plate), Smalley, A., Apr.
13, '05. (179) $6.75. heartsease and Rue. First edition. Portrait. Bost., 1888. ..."
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