 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heed
noun: paying particular notice (as to children or helpless
people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends
without heed to the consequences" [syn: {attentiveness},
{regard}, {paying attention}] [ant: {inattentiveness}]
verb: pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of
the old men" [syn: {mind}, {listen}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heed \Heed\ (h[=e]d), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Heeded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Heeding}.] [OE. heden, AS. h[=e]dan; akin to OS.
h[=o]dian, D. hoeden, Fries. hoda, OHG. huoten, G. h["u]ten,
Dan. hytte. [root]13. Cf. {Hood}.]
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend
to; to observe.
With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. --Dryden.
Syn: To notice; regard; mind. See {Attend}, verb (used with an object)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heed \Heed\, verb (used without an object)
To mind; to consider.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heed \Heed\, noun
1. Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give
or take.
With wanton heed and giddy cunning. --Milton.
Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's
hand. --2 Sam. xx.
10.
Birds give more heed and mark words more than
beasts. --Bacon.
2. Careful consideration; obedient regard.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to
the things which we have heard. --Heb. ii. 1.
3. A look or expression of heading. [R.]
He did it with a serious mind; a heed
Was in his countenance. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
167 Moby Thesaurus words for "heed":
TLC, abide by, accept, accordance, acquittal, acquittance,
act up to, adhere to, adherence, advertence, advertency, alertness,
animadvert, anticipation, application, assiduity, assiduousness,
attend, attend to, attend to orders, attention, attention span,
attentiveness, audience, auscultate, awareness, be all ears,
be concerned, be faithful to, bear in mind, bend an ear, bug,
calculation, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness,
carrying out, caution, cautiousness, circumspection,
circumspectness, cock the ears, cognizance, compliance, comply,
comply with, concentration, concern, conform, conform to,
conformance, conformity, consciousness, consider, consideration,
debate, defer to, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation,
diligence, discharge, discretion, do justice to, ear, earnestness,
eavesdrop, examine by ear, execution, fill, follow,
follow the book, forethought, fulfill, fulfillment, gingerliness,
give attention, give audience to, give ear, give heed to,
guardedness, hark, harken to, hear, hear out, hearing, hearken,
hedge, hedging, heedfulness, heeding, hesitation, hold by,
intentiveness, intentness, intercept, interest, judiciousness,
keep, keep faith with, keeping, lend an ear, listen, listen at,
listen in, listen to, live up to, look, loving care, make good,
mark, meet, mind, mindfulness, note, notice, obey, obey the rules,
observance, observation, observe, pawkiness, pay attention,
pay attention to, performance, practice, preparedness,
prior consultation, prudence, prudentialness, reck, regard,
regardfulness, remark, respect, safeness, safety first,
satisfaction, satisfy, see, sit in on, slowness to act, solicitude,
stay in line, study, submit, take, take an interest, take note,
take note of, take notice, take orders, tap, tend,
tender loving care, tentativeness, think, thoroughness, thought,
thoughtfulness, toe the line, uncommunicativeness,
unprecipitateness, view, watch, wiretap
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