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In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16.

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

Supply; provision. Swift.

laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.

Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. [Obs.] Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.

To supply with food. [Slang] Dickens.

r food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [Written also gournet.] Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.

To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden.

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To apply handcuffs to; to manacle. Hay (1754).

By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous. One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. --…

-- Little chief hare, or Crying hare. (Zoöl.) See Chief hare. -- Sea hare. (Zoöl.) See Aplysia.

One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

h a handle on the under side, to hold mortar. Hawk boy, an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.

A thorny shrub or tree (the Cratægus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. Gives not the hawthorn b…

lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply. The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. Dryden. Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you. Deut. iv. 1.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. -- Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. -- Dynamical theory of heat, that theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a pe…

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.