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Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.

A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

s, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope.

In addition to; besides; -- indicating multiplication or succession in a series; as, heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss; thought on thought. Shak.

g upon. This woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 1 Kings iii. 19. A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire. Dryden.

A heap of dressed ore.

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.

A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

An accumulation; a heap. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of heaping up.

zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.

Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements. The smallest figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account. Holland.

quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity. This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation. B. Jonson.

To cheapen. [Scot.]

A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt. For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. Pope.

A heap of game killed.

A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse. "A raff of errors." Barrow.

ls or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. I will raise forts against thee. Isa. xxxix. 3.

To make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer.

gain; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak.