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A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [Obs.] His shield grave and great. Chapman.

Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.

ecific gravity of gold, expresses the fact that, bulk for bulk, gold is nineteen times as heavy as water.

To make heavy; to increase. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

e ocean, which occurs in calm weather and without obvious cause, breaking on the shore in heavy roaring billows; -- called also rollers, and in Jamaica, the North sea. -- Ground sill. See Ground plate (a) (above). -- Ground snake (Zoöl.), a small burrowing American snake (Celuta amoena). It is salmon colored, and has…

d in grubbing up roots, etc. -- Grub breaker. Same as Grub hook (below). -- Grub hoe, a heavy hoe for grubbing. -- Grub hook, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps, breaking roots, etc. -- Grub saw, a handsaw used for sawing marble. -- Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr…

To rumble; to make a low, harsh, and heavy sound; to mutter; as, the distant thunder grumbles.

A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.

rican larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. Prior. The heaving plain of ocea…

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.

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Heavy; dull. [Prov.]