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.