\Heft\, n.
Same as {Haft}, n. [Obs.] --Waller.

\Heft\, n. [From {Heave}: cf. hefe weight. Cf. {Haft}.]
1. The act or effort of heaving? violent strain or exertion.
   [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\, 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.]

\Heft\, n.; G. pl. {Hefte}. [G.]
A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a
notebook; also, a part of a serial publication.
      The size of ``hefts'' will depend on the material
      requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost
      about 15 marks.                          --The Nation.