H E A 
HE AV'ENLINESS, f. Heavenly perfonage : 
Godde'fs of Women } fith your keavenlinefs . 
Hath n6w vouchfia-f’d itfelf to reprefent 
To dur dim eyes, Sic. ■ Davies on Dancing. 
HKAV'ENLY, adj. Refembling heaven ; fupremely 
excellent: 
Not Maro’s mufe, who fungthe mighty man ; 
Nor Pindar’s heav'nly lyre, nor Horace when a fwan. 
Dryden. 
Celeftial ; inhabiting heaven : 
Adoring firft the genius of the place. 
Then earth, the mother of the heav'nly race. Dryden. 
HEAV'ENLY, adv. In a manner refembling that of 
heaven: 
In thefe deep folitudes and awful cells, 
Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells. 
And ever-mufing melancholy reigns, 
What means this tumult in a veftal’s veins ? Pope. 
By the agency or influence of heaven : 
Truth and peace and love (hall ever fliine 
About the fupreme throne 
Of him, t’whofe happy-making fight alone, 
Our heav'nly. guided foul fhall climb. Milton. 
HE' AVER, f. A kind of handfpike. A fea term. 
HEAV'ILY, adv. With great ponderoufnefs. Griev- 
oufly; afflidtively.—Eafe mud be impracticable to the 
envious ; they lie under a double misfortune ; common 
calamities and common bleffings fall heavily upon them. 
Collier.— Sorrowfully ; with grief: 
I came hither to tranfport the tidings. 
Which I have 'heavily borne. Shakefpeare. 
With an air of d ejection : 
Why looks your grace fo heavily to-day; 
—O, I have paft a miferable night. Shakefpeare. 
HEAVINESS,/ Ponderoufnefs; the quality of being 
heavy ; weight.—The fubjedt is concerning the heavinefs 
of feveral bodies, or the proportion that is required be¬ 
twixt any given weight and the power which may move 
it. Wilkins .—Dejedtion of mind; depreflion of fpirit.— 
Heavinefs in the heart of man maketh it (loop ; but a good 
word maketh it glad. Prov. xii. 25.—Ye greatly rejoice; 
though now for a feafon ye are in heavinefs , through ma¬ 
nifold temptations. 1 Pet. i. 6.—We are, at the hearing 
of fome, more inclined unto forrow and heavinefs ; of 
fome more mollified, and foftened in mind. Hooker. 
Agaihft ill chances men are ever merry, 
But heavinefs foreruns the good event. Shakefpeare. 
Inaptitude to motion or thought; fluggifhnefs ; torpid- 
hefs ; dulnefs Of fpirit; languidnefs ; languor.—A fen- 
fation of diowfinefs, oppreffion, heavinefs, "and laffitude, 
are figns of a too-plentiful meal. Arbuthnot. 
What means this heavinefs that hangs upon me ? 
This lethargy that creeps through all my fenfes. Addifon. 
Oppreffion ; crufh ; affliction : as, the heavinefs of taxes. 
'Deepnefs or richnefs of‘foil.—As Alexandria exported 
many commodities, fo it received fome, which, by reafon 
bf the fatnefs and heavinefs of the ground, Egypt d.id not 
produce; fuch as metals, wood, and pitch. Arbuthnot. 
HE'AVING, f. The a St of raifihg from the ground ; 
an effort to vOrnit. The adt of turning round the cap- 
Itern by means of the handfpike-s. 
Heaving a-head, the adt of advancing the head of 
the (hip. 
Heaving out, the adt ofuiifitrlirtg a fail. 
Heaving f/tdft, the adt of bringing the head of the 
fiiip in a diredtion nearly perpendicular to the anchor. 
Heaving taught, the aft of tightening a rope >bymeans 
of the capfiern, io as to be ready for adtioh. 
HEAULME, or llEAUME,/ in heraldry, the hel- 
m'et. Scott. 
H E B S8> 
-HEAY'Yi, adj. [heapg, Sax.] Weighty; ponder¬ 
ous ; tending ftrongly to the centre ; contrary to light.— 
Merfennus tells us, that a little child, with an engine 
of an hundred do'uble pulleys, might move this earth, 
though it were much heavier than it is. Wilkins. —Sor¬ 
rowful; dejedted ; depreffed: 
Let me not be light; 
For a light wife doth make a heavy hufband. Shakefpeare, 
Grievous ; oppreffive ; afflictive.—Menelaus bore an 
heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind. 
9. Mac. v.23. 
Let not your ears defpife my tongue for ever, 
Which ftvall poffefs them with the keavief found 
That ever yet they heard. Shakefpeare. 
Wanting alacrity; wanting brifknefs of appearance : 
My heavy eyes, you fay, confefs 
A heart to love and grief inclined. Prior. 
Wanting fpirit or rapidity of fentiment; unanimated.—. 
A work was to be done, a heavy writer to be encouraged, 
and accordingly many tboufand copies were befpoke* 
Swift. —Wanting activity ; indolent ; lazy : 
Fair, tall, his limbs with due proportion join’d ; 
But of a heavy, dull, degenerate, mind. Dryden. 
Drowfy ; dull ; torpid.—Peter and they that were with 
him were heavy with deep. Luke.— Slow ; fluggiffi : 
But let thy fpiders that fuck up thy venom, 
And tor/y-gaited toads, lie in their way. Shakefpeare. 
Stupid ; foolifli.—I would not be accounted fo bafe- 
minded, or heavy- headed, that I will confefs that any of 
them is for valour, power, or fortune, better than my r 
felf. Knolles. 
This tezry.headed revel, eaft and weft 
Makes us traduc’d, and tax’d of other nations. Shakefp » 
Burdenfome; troublefome; tedious.—When alone, your 
time will not lie heavy upon your hands for want of 
fome trifling amufement. Swift: —Loaded; incumbered; 
burthe'ned.—Hearing that there were forces coming a- 
gainft him, and not willing that they ftiould^find his inert 
heavy and laden with booty, he returned unto Scotland. 
Bacon.' —Noteafily digefted ; not light to the ftomach.— 
Such preparations as retain the oil or fat, are moll heavy 
to the ftomach, which makes baked meat hard of di- 
geftion. Arbuthnot. —Rich in (oil; fertile ; as, heavy lands,, 
Deep ; ciimberlome ; as, heavy rOads. 
HEAV'Y, adv. As an adverb it is only ufed in com- 
pofition; heavily.—Your carriages were heavy laden ; 
they are a burden to the weary bealL 7/&. xlvi. 1.—Confe 
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I 
will give you reft. Matth. xi. 28. 
HEAV'Y-HANDED, adj. Having a heavy hand ; 
clumfy about the hands. 
HEAV'Y-HEELED, adj. Slow in motion; clumfy 
abotit the legs. 
HEB'BERMEN, f. Fifliermen, or poachers, below 
London-bridge, who fi(h for whitings, flounders, fmelt$, 
&c. commonly at ebbing water; mentioned in One ot 
the articles of the Thames jury, at the court of cojifer- 
vancy of the river Thames, printed anno 1632. T h'efe 
perfons are puniffiaible by ftat. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15. 
HEB'BERTHEF, f. The privilege of claiming the 
goods and trial of a thief within a certain liberty. Ah 
old law-term. .• 
HEB'BING-WEARS, f A device for catching filh 
in ebbing water. Bailey. 
HEB'DOMAD, f. [ kebdonias, Lat. ] A week ; a fpace 
of (even days.—Computing by the medical month, the 
firft hebdomad or feptenary confifts of fix ditys feveiiteen 
hours and a half. Brown. 
H KB DOM'A DAL, or Hebdom'adary, adj. I'keb- 
domas, Lat.] Weekly ; confifting 6f feven days.—As lor 
hebdoma da /periods, o'r weeks, in regard of their fabbaths, 
they were obferved by the Hebrews. Brown. 
3 3 HEB'DOMAD^E, 
