1. [n]  a serious (or tragic) role in a play
2. [n]  an actor who plays villainous roles
3. [adv]  slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands"
4. [adj]  darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
5. [adj]  (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
6. [adj]  (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
7. [adj]  lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
8. [adj]  characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
9. [adj]  requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
10. [adj]  usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
11. [adj]  full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
12. [adj]  sharply inclined; "a heavy grade"
13. [adj]  dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding"
14. [adj]  of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture"
15. [adj]  large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"
16. [adj]  marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"
17. [adj]  unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"
18. [adj]  (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"
19. [adj]  of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"
20. [adj]  slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
21. [adj]  of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"
22. [adj]  of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
23. [adj]  full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
24. [adj]  used of syllables or musical beats
25. [adj]  of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"
26. [adj]  made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"
27. [adj]  permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
28. [adj]  having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream"
29. [adj]  (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
30. [adj]  wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark"

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1. \Heav"y\, a.
   Having the heaves.
   

2. \Heav"y\, a. [Compar. {Heavier}; superl. {Heaviest}.] [OE.
   hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG.
   hebig, hevig, Icel. h["o]figr, h["o]fugr. 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.
   4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate,
      stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the
      like; a heavy writer or book.
            Whilst the heavy plowman snores.      --Shak.
            Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.    --Dryden.
            Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.
                                                  --Is. lix. 1.
   5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm,
      cannonade, and the like.
   6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
            But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.
                                                  --Byron.
   7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the
      sky.
   8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a
      heavy road, soil, and the like.
   9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
   10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not
       easily digested; -- said of food.
   11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other
       liquors.
   12. With child; pregnant. [R.]
   {Heavy artillery}. (Mil.)
       (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege,
           garrison, and seacoast guns.
       (b) Troops which serve heavy guns.
   {Heavy cavalry}. See under {Cavalry}.
   {Heavy fire} (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading,
      or discharge of small arms.
   {Heavy metal} (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large
      size; also, large balls for such guns.
   {Heavy metals}. (Chem.) See under {Metal}.
   {Heavy weight}, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to
      the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are
      divided. Cf. {Feather weight}
       (c), under {Feather}.
   Note: Heavy is used in composition to form many words which
         need no special explanation; as, heavy-built,
         heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc.
   

3. \Heav"y\, adv.
   Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
   

4. \Heav"y\, v. t.
   To make heavy. [Obs.] --Wyclif.