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.

 

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