Heaves
['hivz]
Definition
(noun.) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks.
Typist: Wolfgang--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
Typist: Lottie
Examples
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His broad chest heaves with pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It heaves and frets beneath the artificial political map like some misfitted giant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the broad stomacher heaves, and the quaint upright old-fashioned figure bends under its load of affectionate distress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Shelby