Defn: Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HEFT
Heft, n.
Defn: Same as Haft, n. [Obs.] Waller.
HEFT
Heft, n. Etym: [From Heave: cf. hefe weight. Cf. Haft.]
1. The act or effort of heaving [Obs.] He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak.
2. Weight; ponderousness. [Colloq.] A man of his age and heft. T. Hughes.
3. The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. [Colloq. U. S.] J. Pickering.
HEFT
Heft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hefted (Heft, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hefting.]
1. To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.
2. To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]