<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the heart<OL TYPE="a"><LI>that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the blood, and hence was regarded as the seat of physical life<LI>denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life<LI>the vigour and sense of physical life<LI>the centre and seat of spiritual life<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours<LI>of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence<LI>of the will and character<LI>of the soul so far as it is affected and stirred in a bad way or good, or of the soul as the seat of the sensibilities, affections, emotions, desires, appetites, passions</OL><LI>of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even though inanimate</OL></OL>