To raise; lift; hoist.Especially To lift with obvious effort; raise with exertion, as something heavy or resistant.To lift (a child) at baptism; baptize; also, to be sponsor for.To weigh; heft.To cause to swell or bulge upward; raise above the former or the surrounding level: often with up.To elevate or elate in condition or feeling, as by the operation of some potent agency or some moving influence; exalt; promote; raise suddenly or forcibly to a higher state.To increase.To bring up or forth with effort; raise from the breast or utter with the voice laboriously or painfully: as, to heave a sigh or a groan.To throw upward and outward; cast or toss with force or effort; hurl or pitch, as with aim or purpose: as, to heave a stone; to heave the lead.In geology, to throw or lift out of its place: said of the intersection of two veins, or of that of a cross-course with another vein.Nautical, to draw or pull in any direction, as by means of a windlass or capstan: as, to heave a ship ahead (that is, to bring her forward, when not under sail, by means of a cable or other appliance); to heave up an anchor (to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere).Synonyms and Hoist, Lift, etc. See raise.To be raised, thrown, or forced up; rise; swell up; bulge out.To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the waves of the sea, the lungs in difficult or painful breathing, the earth in an earthquake, etc.To pant, as after severe exertion; labor.To make an effort to vomit; retch.To mount.To labor heavily; toil.n. An act of heaving; a lifting, throwing, tossing, or retching exertion.n. An upward movement or expansion; swell or distention, as of the waves of the sea, of the lungs in difficult or painful breathing, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.; a forcible uplifting.n. A rise of land; a knoll.n. In mining, a dislocation or displacement of a part of a vein, in consequence of its intersection by another vein or cross-course, or by a simple slide, fracture, or jointing of the country-rock.n. plural A disease of horses. See heaves.