heap sb. (3 a late ex. of this sense; cf. Coverdale, Ezekiel xxxviii. 22 ‘vpon him and all his heape’)
1.
phr. “on heaps, on a heap,” in a fallen or
prostrate mass, prostrate, in ruins
H5 V. ii. 39
“all her husbandry doth
lie on h-s,”
Tit. II. iii. 223
“Lord Bassianus lies . .
. All on a ,”
Tim. IV. iii. 101
“laid proud Athens on a
heap.”
2.
mass AYL. I
ii. 74
“the great of your
knowledge,”
2H6 V. i. 157
“Hence, of wrath,”
Tim. V. i. 157
“such h-s and sums of
love and wealth,”
Per. I. i. 33
“all thy whole heap must
die.”
3.
great company or body
R3 II. i. 53
“Among this princely
”
; phr. “on h-s, upon a
,”
in a body H5 IV. v. 18, Troil. III. ii. 27,
Cæs. I. iii.
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