1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal
heaver.
2. (Naut.) A bar used as a lever. Totten.
Heaves
(Heaves) n. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank,
wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
Heavily
(Heav"i*ly) adv. [From 2d Heavy.]
1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration.
The Century. 2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or
suffering manner; sorrowfully.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.
Ex. xiv. 25.
Why looks your grace so heavily to- day?
Shak. heavily-traveled
(heavily-traveled, heavily traveled) adj. subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's
most heavily traveled highways.
Syn. — heavily traveled.
[WordNet 1.5]
Heaviness
(Heav"i*ness), n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Heaving
(Heav"ing) n. A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. Addison. Shak.
Heavisome
(Heav"i*some) a. Heavy; dull. [Prov.]
Heavy
(Heav"y) a. Having the heaves.
Heavy
(Heav"y) a. [Compar. Heavier ; superl. Heaviest.] [OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift,
heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. höfigr, höfugr. See Heave.]
1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in
extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions,
etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as,
heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
1 Sam. v. 6.
The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
Shak.
Sent hither to impart the heavy news.
Wordsworth.
Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
Shak. 3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or
with care, grief, pain, disappointment.
The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
Chapman.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Shak.
