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Heavy
HEAV'Y, a. hev'y.
1. Weighty; ponderous; having great weight; tending strongly to the center of attraction; contrary to light; applied to material bodies; as a heavy stone; a heavy load.
2. Sad; sorrowful; dejected; depressed in mind.
A light wife makes a heavy husband.
So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart. Prov 25.
3. Grievous; afflictive; depressing to the spirits; as heavy news; a heavy calamity.
4. Burdensome; oppressive; as heavy taxes.
Make thy father's heavy yoke--lighter. 1 Ki 12.
5. Wanting life and animation; dull.
My heavy eyes you say confess
A heart to love and grief inclined.
6. Drowsy; dull.
Their eyes were heavy. Mat 26. Luke 9.
7. Wanting spirit or animation; destitute of life or rapidity of sentiment; dull; as a heavy writer; a heavy style.
8. Wanting activity or vivacity; indolent.
But of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.
9. Slow; sluggish.
He walks with a heavy gait.
10. Burdensome; tedious; as heavy hours.
Time lies heavy on him who has no employment.
11. Loaded; encumbered; burdened.
He found his men heavy, and laden with booty.
12. Lying with weight on the stomach; not easily digested; as, oily food is heavy to the stomach.
13. Moist; deep; soft; miry; as heavy land; a heavy soil. We apply heavy to soft loamy or clayey land, which makes the draught of a plow or wagon difficult and laborious. So we say, a heavy road.
14. Difficult; laborious; as a heavy draught.
15. Weary; supported with pain or difficulty.
And the hands of Moses were heavy. Exo 17.
16. Inflicting severe evils,punishments or judgments.
The hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod.
l Sam.5.
17. Burdensome; occasioning great care.
This thing is too heavy for thee. Exo 18.
18. Dull; not hearing; inattentive.
Neither his ears heavy, that he cannot hear. Isa 59.
19. Large, as billows; swelling and rolling with great force; as a heavy sea.
20. Large in amount; as a heavy expense; a heavy debt.
21. Thick; dense; black; as a heavy cloud.
22. Violent; tempestuous; as a heavy wind or gale.
23. Large; abundant; as a heavy fall of snow or rain.
24. Great; violent; forcible; as a heavy fire of cannon or small arms.
25. Not raised by leaven or fermentation; not light; clammy; as heavy bread.
26. Requiring much labor or much expense; as a heavy undertaking.
27. Loud; as heavy thunder.
Heavy metal, in military affairs, signifies large guns, carrying balls of a large size, or it is applied to large balls themselves.
HEAVY, adv. hev'y. With great weight; used in composition.
HEAVY, v.t. hev'y. To make heavy. [Not in use.]
heavy appears in definitions for these words:
Aggravate Air Almagra Ammite Ass Balance Ballast Ballatoon Bang Baroselenite Baryta Barytone Basalt Bat Batter Beating Beef-witted Beet-rave Beneath Beryl Block Body Bounce Bouncing Bow Brake Brazil Break Bruise Bruised Bruising Bump Bumpkin Burden Burdenous Burdensome Buttress Cable Cannonade Carboncle Cart Cataphract Cavezon Chain Chuff Chump Cinnabar Circle Club Club-fist Clubbed Commander Comparative Comparatively Crab Crout Crow Damage Dead Dead-heartedness Disencumber Disguise Dolt Dozy Draft Draft-horse Drag Drone Drowse Drowsy Drowsy-headed Dull Dull-witted Dumpishness Dunnage Easy Ebony Eland Fat Fatwitted Findy Fly Freshet Gewgaw Gloomy Grave-stone Gravid Gravitate Gravity Grievous Grumble Guy Hand Handscrew Harbor Haul Heart Heavily Heaviness Heavy Heavy-laden Hebetate Hoplite Hum Hurry Hydrocarbonate Indicate Infantry Insipid Isochronal Jalap Job Knock Krout Labor Languid Languish Lazily Lazy Leaden Lethargic Lie Lifeless Lift Light Lighten Loach Lob Lubber Lubberly Lug Luggage Lumping Lumpish Lurch Mace Mall Manageable Mangrove Massy Maul Much Muddy Mumpish Musty Open Opium Oppress Oppressive Overcharge Overload Overmast Overmasted Overponderous Overtask Pace Phlegmatic Plodder Plumbeous Plump Ponderous Poop Pooping Portable Pound Pounded Pressitant Propagate Proverb Purchase Purse Ransom Reel Relieve Responsibility Rumble Rumbling Sabre Saccade Sad Sadden Sagapen Sailer Saturnine Shears Sheers Sit Skid Sled Sledge Slipper Slouch Slow Slug Soak Sound Soundly Squab Squabbish Squabby Squash Squelsh Stay-tackle Still Stroke Strontianite Stun Stupid Sulky Sullen Sweinmote Swine Tackle Tax Ternate Theft Thickskulled Thred Thump Thumping Thunder Thwack Thwacking Thyite Tilt-hammer Top-heavy Touch Turpeth Unbuild Under Wagon Water-logged Weighing-machine Weight Weighty Whapper Wield Wo
Aggravate Air Almagra Ammite Ass Balance Ballast Ballatoon Bang Baroselenite Baryta Barytone Basalt Bat Batter Beating Beef-witted Beet-rave Beneath Beryl Block Body Bounce Bouncing Bow Brake Brazil Break Bruise Bruised Bruising Bump Bumpkin Burden Burdenous Burdensome Buttress Cable Cannonade Carboncle Cart Cataphract Cavezon Chain Chuff Chump Cinnabar Circle Club Club-fist Clubbed Commander Comparative Comparatively Crab Crout Crow Damage Dead Dead-heartedness Disencumber Disguise Dolt Dozy Draft Draft-horse Drag Drone Drowse Drowsy Drowsy-headed Dull Dull-witted Dumpishness Dunnage Easy Ebony Eland Fat Fatwitted Findy Fly Freshet Gewgaw Gloomy Grave-stone Gravid Gravitate Gravity Grievous Grumble Guy Hand Handscrew Harbor Haul Heart Heavily Heaviness Heavy Heavy-laden Hebetate Hoplite Hum Hurry Hydrocarbonate Indicate Infantry Insipid Isochronal Jalap Job Knock Krout Labor Languid Languish Lazily Lazy Leaden Lethargic Lie Lifeless Lift Light Lighten Loach Lob Lubber Lubberly Lug Luggage Lumping Lumpish Lurch Mace Mall Manageable Mangrove Massy Maul Much Muddy Mumpish Musty Open Opium Oppress Oppressive Overcharge Overload Overmast Overmasted Overponderous Overtask Pace Phlegmatic Plodder Plumbeous Plump Ponderous Poop Pooping Portable Pound Pounded Pressitant Propagate Proverb Purchase Purse Ransom Reel Relieve Responsibility Rumble Rumbling Sabre Saccade Sad Sadden Sagapen Sailer Saturnine Shears Sheers Sit Skid Sled Sledge Slipper Slouch Slow Slug Soak Sound Soundly Squab Squabbish Squabby Squash Squelsh Stay-tackle Still Stroke Strontianite Stun Stupid Sulky Sullen Sweinmote Swine Tackle Tax Ternate Theft Thickskulled Thred Thump Thumping Thunder Thwack Thwacking Thyite Tilt-hammer Top-heavy Touch Turpeth Unbuild Under Wagon Water-logged Weighing-machine Weight Weighty Whapper Wield Wo
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