heaves 
heaves (hevz), n. pi. [PI. of heave, n.] A dis- 
ease of horses, characterized by difficult and 
laborious respiration. 
heave-shoulder(hev'sk61"der),H. IntheLeviti- 
cal law, the portion (the right shoulder) of an 
animal presented as a thank- or peace-offering 
that fell to the priests : so called because offered 
with a gesture of heaving or elevation. The heave- 
shoulder was the portion assigned to the officiating priest, 
as the wave-breast was to other priests. 
heave-shoulderedt, High-shouldered. Da- 
vies. 
Captaines that wore a whole antient in a scarte, which 
made them goe heave-shouldered. 
Nauhe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 157). 
heave-thigh (hev'thi), n. In the Levitical sac- 
rificial system, the thigh used as a heave-offer- 
ing. 
heavily (hevl-HV adv. [< ME. hevily, < AS. hefig- 
lice, heavily, grievously, < hefiglic, a., heavy, < 
hefig, heavy : see hMW*.] 1. In a heavy man- 
ner ; with great weight or burden. 
The sunless sky, 
Big with clouds, hangs heavily. 
Shelley, Written among the Euganean Hills. 
A large, heavily sparred, handsome schooner, lying to 
at the south end of Arcs. R. L. Sleventon, Merry Men. 
Hence 2. With oppression or difficulty; griev- 
ously ; dejectedly ; tediously. 
But there weren summe that boren it hevyly withynne 
hemsilf and seiden, wherto is this losse of oynement maad ? 
Wyclif, Mark xiv. 
Why looks your grace so heavily to-day ? 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 4. 
The evening passed off heavily. 
Greville, Memoirs, Sept. 9, 1818. 
3. Densely; thickly: as, heavily bearded; heavily 
timbered. 
heaviness (hev'i-nes), n. [< ME. hevinesse, < 
AS. liefignes,<.hefig, heavy: see heavy 1 and -ness.] 
1 . The state or quality of being heavy ; weight ; 
burden; gravity. 2. A heavy state of mind; 
grief; sorrow; despondency; sluggishness; lan- 
guidness; oppression ; tediousness. 
In this manner dide Grascien hem counforte, and his 
son Banyns, to a-voide [remove] the hevynesse of the two 
queues. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 381. 
It makith a man list, iocunde, glad, and merie, and 
puttith awey heuynesse, angre, malencoly, and wraththe. 
Book of Quinle Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 19. 
If any man be at heuynesse with any of his bretheryne 
for any maner [of) trespas, he schal not pursewen him in 
no maner of courte. English Gildi (E. E. T. S.), p. 279. 
heaving (he'ving), n. [Verbal n. of heave, v.~\ 
Upheaval ; swell ; rising ; panting ; palpita- 
tion. 
'Tis such as you 
That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh 
At each his needless heavings such as you 
Nourish the cause of his awaking. 
Shak.,W. T.,il. 3. 
Wave with wave no longer strives, 
Only a heaving of the deep survives, 
A telltale motion ! 
Wordsivorth, Evening Voluntaries, iii. 
heaving-days (he' ving-daz), n. pi. Easter 
Monday and Tuesday : so called from the cus- 
tom of lifting the women from the ground and 
kissing them at that time. See quotation from 
Bickerdyke under heave, v. t., 1. [Prov. Eng.] 
heaving-line (he'ving-Hn), n. Naut., a small 
line, generally about half an inch in diameter 
and from 5 to 10 fathoms long, with a small lead 
weight at one end, employed on steamships and 
tow-boats to throw to the shore or to another 
vessel, so that the end of a hawser may be 
hauled ashore or to the other vessel by it. 
heavisome (hev'i-sum), a. [< heavyl + -some.'] 
Dark; dull; drowsy. [Prov. Eng.] 
heavityt, . [ME. hevyte ; irreg. < heavyl + -ty.] 
Heaviness; sadness. 
The teres ful of hevyte. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1736. 
heavy 1 (hev'i), a. ; compar. heavier, superl. hea- 
viest. [< ME. hevy, hevig, < AS. hefig (= OS. he- 
bhig = OHG. hebig, hepig, hevig, MHG. hebec = 
Icel. ~hof.gr, hofugr, heavy). < hebban (impv. hef, 
hefe, pp. hafen), heave, lift: see heave.] 1. 
Hard to heave or lift ; having much weight or 
gravity ; ponderous : as, a heavy load. 
The stone was but little, yet so heavie that I was very 
hardly able to lift it up with all my strength. 
Coryat, Crudities, 1. 173. 
Never heavier man and horse 
Stemmed a midnight torrent's force 
Scott, L. of L. M., i. 29. 
2. Having much weight in proportion to bulk; 
dense in substance or texture : of high specific 
gravity, absolutely or relatively : as, the heavy 
metals ; a heavy silk or paper; water is heavier 
than oil. 
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Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow ? 
Shak., L. L. L., iii. 1. 
3. (a) Of great volume, force, intensity, etc.; 
of unusual amount or bulk: used of things : as, 
a, heavy tail of rain; & heavy sea.; heavy sleep; a 
heavy meal; a heavy order for goods. 
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow. 
And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 78. 
A heavy snow had fallen the day previous, and the track 
was completely filled. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 150. 
Hark '. that heavy sound breaks in once more. 
Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 22. 
(6) Acting, operating, or affected in a large 
way; doing or suffering something to a great 
extent or amount : used of persons : as, a heavy 
dealer in stocks ; a heavy buyer. 
The heaviest customers were the coffee planters. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 776. 
4. Exceptionally dense in substance or quality, 
as a fluid; specifically, not properly raised or 
leavened, as bread; having much body or 
strength, as wine or beer ; thick or viscid, as 
an oil ; loaded with moisture or vapors, as the 
air; oppressive or producing languor, as an 
odor. 
When red hath set the beamless sun, 
Through heavy vapors dank and dun. 
Scott, Marmion, iv., Int. 
Some tastes and smells appear less extensive than com- 
plex flavours, like that of roast meat or plum pudding on 
the one hand, or heavy odours like musk or tuberose on 
the other. W. James, Mind, XII. 2. 
When what is termed "whole wheaten flour" that is, 
the entire substance of the grain, excepting only the outer 
bran is baked, it is known that the resulting loaf is . . . 
liable to be somewhat heavy and sodden. 
Encyc. Brit., III. 254. 
5. Having comparatively much breadth or 
thickness ; coarse ; thick : as, a heavy line in 
drawing ; a lieavy scar. 
What a fascinating creature he was, with his little 
black mustache, almost as heavy as a pencil mark. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 77. 
6. Lacking lightness or brightness ; without 
cheerfulness or interest; dull, stupid, weari- 
some, or depressing: as, a heavy countenance; 
a heavy book or style. 
Thomas sayde than with heuy chere : 
"Lufly lady, nowe late me bee." 
Thomas of Ersseldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 107). 
Then will ye curse the heavy hour 
That ever your love was born. 
Burd Ellen (Child's Ballads, III. 216). 
A work was to be done, a heavy writer to be encouraged, 
and accordingly many thousand copies were bespoke. 
Swi/t. 
Large women, offensively dressed, sit about the veranda, 
and give a heavy and company air to the drawing-rooms. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 245. 
7. Dull or sluggish ; without animation, ac- 
tivity, or briskness of movement: as, a heavy 
gait ; a heavy market. 
Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened, that It can- 
not save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 
Isa. lix. 1. 
Trembling like the treble of a lute under the heavy fin- 
ger of a farmer's daughter. Middleton, The Black Book. 
8. Obstructive ; clogging or hindering passage 
or progress : as, a heavy road or track ; heavy 
soil ; his debts are a heavy drag upon him. 
The roads were hrary, the night misty. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xi. 
It was the depth of winter. The cold was severe, and 
the roads heavy with mire. 
Macaulay, Frederic the Great. 
9. Weighed or bowed down as with a burden; 
oppressed, physically or mentally: as, eyes 
heavy with sleep ; a heavy heart. 
My suster is so hevy and pensif of oure rays-nappes that 
right seilden she maketh eny mery chere to me. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S-X i. 6. 
He . . . began to be sorrowful, and very heavy. 
Mat xxvi. 37. 
Not willing that they should find his men heavy and 
laden with booty. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. 
Each heart as heavy as a log. Cowper, Yearly Distress. 
With fingers weary and worn, 
With eyelids heavy and red. 
Hood, Song of the Shirt. 
10. Hard to bear or endure ; burdensome; op- 
pressive; afflicting; severe: as, a heavy -pain; 
a heavy reckoning; heavy penalties. 
The kyng was dede, whiche was a hevy case. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1302. 
My Lord, it is the heaviest News that ever was sent me. 
Howell, Letters, I. vi. 7. 
But, O, the heavy change, now thou art gone ! 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 37. 
11. Difficult of accomplishment ; hard to do or 
perform ; hard to fulfil or discharge : as, a heavy 
task or undertaking. 
hebdomad 
Curious inditing and hard sentence is ful htvy atones 
for ewich a child to lern. Chaucer. 
This thing is too heavy for thee ; thou art not able to 
perform it thyself alone. Ex. xviii. 18. 
It was a heavy task to the two girls to have to entertain 
her. Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xxvii. 
12. Sober; serious; relating or pertaining to 
the representation of didactic or somber parts : 
as, the heavy father; the heavy villain; the 
piece has much heavy business.. [Theatrical 
cant.] 13. Milit., same as henry-armed: as, 
heavy cavalry (meaning cuirassiers and the like) . 
A heavy hand. See hand. Heavy artillery. See 
artillery. Heavy earth. Same as baryta. Heavy 
glass. See glass. Heavy marching order, the con- 
dition of troops fully equipped for field-service. Heavy 
metaL (a) Guns or shot of large size. Hence (6) Com- 
manding ability, mental or bodily ; great power or influ- 
ence : as, he is a man of heavy metal. [Colloq. ] Heavy 
oil. Same as dead-oil. Heavy on or In hand. See hand. 
Heavy side, in a grindstone and similar objects, a pre- 
ponderance in weight of one side of the stone or wheel 
over the other. 
This speed gives rise, with large stones, to so much mo- 
mentum as to endanger their being split, if there should 
be the smallest flaw in the stone, or that from neglect it 
acquires a heavy side. 
0. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 419. 
Heavy wet, a potation of strong ale or ale and porter 
mixed. [Slang, Eng.] Hot and heavy. SeeAod. The 
heavies. () Milit., the heavy cavalry. (6) Theat. , those 
who play heavy parts. See def. 12. [Cant.] (c) People 
who are heavy. [Colloq.] 
You are one of the heavies, but I think we can outfit 
you [with a strong horse]. The Century, XXXVII. 900. 
heavyif (hev'i), v. [< ME. hevien, < AS. hefigian, 
make heavy, become heavy, < hefig, heavy.] I. 
trans. To make heavy; grieve. 
And turnede agen eftsoone and foound hem slepinge, 
for her yghen weren hevyed, and they knewen not what 
they schulden answere to him. Wyclif, Mark xiv. 
Thow seiste how it is the he-fallen, and yet thou art of 
feire age, and me hevyeth sore the to sle. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), 11. 368. 
II. intrans. To become heavy or sad. 
The kyng fro day to day he heuyed more and more, 
Nerhaud his endyng sekenes greued him sore. 
Sob. of Brunne, p. 65. 
heavy 2 (he'vi), a. [< heav-es + -y 1 .] Having 
the disease called heaves : as, a heavy horse. 
heavy-armed (hev'i-armd), a. Bearing heavy 
arms or armor : as, heavy-armed troops. 
heavy-handed (hev'i-han"ded), a. 1. Clum- 
sy; awkward; not dexterous. 2. Oppressive; 
downbearing: as, heavy-handed tyranny. 
heavy-headed (hev'i-hed"ed), a. Having a 
heavy head ; dull ; stupid. 
We are dull soldiers, 
Gross heavy-headed fellows ; flght for victuals ! 
Fletcher, Mad Lover, v. 4. 
heavy-hearted (hev'i-har"ted), a. Heavy at 
heart; sad; mournful. 
heavy-laden (hev'i-la"dn), a. Laden with a 
heavy burden. 
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. Mat xi. 28. 
heavy-pine (hev'i-pin), . A name of the Pinm 
ponderosa. See pine 1 . 
heavy-spar (hev'i-spar), n. Sulphate of bari- 
um; also, carbonate of barium; loosely, car- 
bonate or sulphate of strontium. 
heavy-Stone (hev'i-ston), n. The name origi- 
nally given to cerite, from its density. Also 
called heavy-stone of Bastnas. 
heavy-tailed (hev'i-tald), a. Having a heavy 
tail : used specifically in the phrase heavy-tailed 
duck, the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida. J. 
T. Sharpless, 1833. 
heavy-weight (hev'i-wat),. 1. A person whose 
weight exceeds the average ; specifically, a box- 
er or other contestant whose weight places him 
in the highest of the four grades or classes of 
contestants recognized by sporting men, the 
others being middle-weight, light-weight, and 
feather-weight. 2. A person of weight or im- 
portance; one of much influence. 
Heb. An abbreviation of Hebrews. 
hebdomad (heb'do-mad), n. [= Sp. hebdomada 
= Pg. hebdomada = It. ebdomada, < L. hebdomas 
(-mad-), < Gr. i^&ofid^ (-/tad-), a number of seven, 
a week, < f/Wo/uof (= L. septimns), seventh, < rrd 
= L.sep<em = E. seven.] 1. The number seven ; 
the idea of seven, or the quality of being seven 
in number. 2. The sum of seven things; a 
collection of seven persons or things; specifi- 
cally, a group of seven days; a week. 
But in that tyme I Daniel was so heuey by thre hebdo- 
mads of dayes that I ate no delicate meatis. 
Joye, Expos, of Daniel, x. 
