Adverb

(en adverb)

In a heavy manner.

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, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

With a great weight.

To a considerable degree, to a great extent.

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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

In a manner designed for heavy duty.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}

So as to be thick or heavy.

In a laboured manner.

Adverb

(en adverb)

(lb) Sorrowfully.

*, III.8:

*:there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne.

With care; attentively, circumspectly.

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*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.