Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEAV'I-LY, adv. [hev'ily. from heavy.]

1. With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
2. With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the Christian, he finds consolation in Christ.
3. Sorrowfully; with grief. I came hither to transport the tidings, / Which I have heavily borne. Shak.
4. With an air of sorrow or dejection. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? Shak.
5. With weight; oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.
6. Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily. So they drove them heavily. Ex. xiv.