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A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

A heap. [Obs.] "The tas of bodies slain." Chaucer.

in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

y piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. "An heap of coin he told." Spenser. He telleth the number of the stars. Ps. cxlvii. 4. Tell the joints of the body. Jer. Taylor.

a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.

To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy. She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues. Pope.

Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

A great quantity or heap. Weale.

Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock. Pinkerton.

At his head a grass-green turf. Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. Milton.

To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.

To buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than. [R.] J. Fletcher.

To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.

To pile, or heap, up. Southey.

d; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood. A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. Burke. -- Vap"id*ly, adv. -- Vap"id*ness, n.

or for tanning leather, or the like. Let him produce his vase and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards. Addison.

ial for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense. Veneer moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Chilo; -- so called because the mottled colors resemble those of veneering.

A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.

on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.