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; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [Now Low or Humorous] The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer. A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. He had heaps of friends. W.Black.

One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

Lying in heaps. Gay.

In a heap; huddled together. Hood.

A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.] Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift.

One who cheapens.

At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.

Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

Piled up; accumulated. God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure. Udall.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]

To heap up. [Obs.]

A heaping up; accumulation. [R.] Johnson.

Heaped up; tending to heap up.

Full of heaps. [R.] Bailey.

Resembling little heaps.

ng, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.