Usually means: Weight or influence; substantial presence.
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  1. heft: Merriam-Webster
  2. heft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heft, heft: Wordnik
  7. heft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heft: Wiktionary
  9. heft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heft: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Heft, heft: Dictionary.com
  13. heft: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heft: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heft: Rhymezone
  19. Heft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HEFT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. heft: FreeDictionary.org
  23. heft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. heft: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. heft: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. heft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. heft: Legal dictionary

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  1. heft: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heft: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HEFT: Acronym Finder
  2. heft: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heft: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hefted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (heft)

noun:  (uncountable)
noun:  The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
noun:  (dated except UK, dialectal and US) The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
noun:  (figurative) Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
noun:  (figurative) Importance, influence; weight.
noun:  (US, informal, dated) The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
noun:  (countable)
noun:  (UK, dialectal) An act of lifting; a lift.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).
verb:  To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
verb:  (figurative) To evaluate or test (someone or something).
verb:  (intransitive) To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.
noun:  A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.
noun:  A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (agriculture) To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.
verb:  To establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; to fix, to root, to settle.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.
verb:  (agriculture) To cause (milk) to be held in a cow's udder until the latter becomes hard and swollen, either by not milking the cow or by stopping up the teats, to make the cow look healthy; also, to cause (a cow) to have an udder in this condition.
verb:  (by extension) To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.
noun:  A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
noun:  A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.

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