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heartsease, heart's-ease|ˈhɑːtsiːz|
[See heart n. and ease.]
1. (prop. as two distinct words.) Ease of heart; tranquillity or peace of mind; freedom from care and trouble; blithesomeness.
14..Chaucer's Clerk's T. 378 (MSS. Corp.; Lansd.) And wisly bringe hem alle in hertes eese [v.r. reste and ese]. 1444–60Paston Lett. No. 330 I. 443 To his plesaunce, and to your herts ease. a1569A. Kingsmill Confl. Satan (1578) 50 He is at heartesease both in mind and bodie. 1591Troub. Raigne K. John ii. (1611) 84 Hap and hearts-ease braue Lordings be your lot. 1748Richardson Clarissa III. iii. 32 In mere wantonness and heartsease I was for buffetting the moon. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. x. 265 Songs of happiness and heart's-ease.
2. As name of a flower or plant. In 16th c. applied both to the Pansy and the Wallflower; at length restricted to the former.
The origin and occasion of the name are not clear. By the mediæval herbalists the pansy and wallflower or wall-gilliflower (as well as the stock gilliflower and other plants) were included in their genus Viola. Of the 16th c. herbalists, Turner 1548–51 has ‘heart's ease’ only as a name of the wallflower; Lyte in 1578, both of the wallflower (‘viola lutea’) and ‘pances’ (‘viola tricolor’). But Palsgrave 1530 applies it only to the pansy, and this appears to be the general usage from R. Greene onward.
a. The Pansy (Viola tricolor); more esp. the small wild form. Also extended to kindred species, as the mountain heart's-ease (V. lutea).
1530Palsgr. 229/2 Hartysease, a floure. Ibid. 231/1 Hertes⁓ease, menve pensee. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. ii. 149 This floure is called..in English Pances, Loue in idleness, and Hartes ease. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 440 Viola Flammea, Herba Trinitatis..Hearts-ease, it is Emollient, helps Epilepsies. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 97 True-love-lies-bleeding, with the hearts-at-ease. 1828Moore Ill Omens iii, She stole through the garden, where heart's-ease was growing. 1862Huxley Lect. Wrkg. Men 132 Hearts⁓ease and red clover..are fertilized by the visits of the bees.
allusively.1599Life Sir T. More Commend. Ep. in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 47 The golden marygold of obedience, hearts-ease of a settled conscience. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 100 This Boy..wears more of that Herb called Hearts-ease in his Bosom.
†b. The Wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). Obs.
1548Turner Names of Herbes 80 Viola..There are diuerse sortes of Leucoion. One is called in english, Cheiry, Hertes ease or wal Gelefloure..it hath yealowe floures. 1562― Herbal ii. 163 b, Viola..that hath the yelow floure..is called..in Englishe Wal gelouer or hartis ease. 1562W. Bullein Def. agst. Sickness (1579) 46 This herbe [Viola alba]..is commonly called Sweete William or Harts ease. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. iii. 151 The yellow Gillofer is called..in English Wall floures and Hartes ease.
c. locally in U.S. The common Persicary or Peachwort (Polygonum Persicaria).
d. An ornament resembling a pansy flower.
a1542Q. Kath. Howard in Burnet Hist. Ref. III. App. iii. lxxii. (1715) III. 171 He gave me a Heart's-Ease of Silk for a New-Year's Gift.
3. slang. (See quots.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hearts-ease, a Twenty shilling piece; also an ordinary sort of Strong Water. 1785–96Grose Dict. Vulgar T. |