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n. [ AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i. ] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Abbrev. fr. “good cheap”: a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen. ] 1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Cheaply. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To buy; to bargain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cheapened p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening. ] [ OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ceápian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupōn to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain. ] 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Cheap, a. ] To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cheapens. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
Syn. -- huckster, hawker, tout. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. costing much less than standard price; as, the store went out of business and sold their remaining stock for dirt-cheap prices.
Syn. -- bargain-priced, cut-rate, cut-price. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. cheap; inexpensive and of inferior quality; as, an el cheapo cigar. [ jocose slang ] [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. heáp; akin to OS. hōp, D. hoop, OHG. houf, hūfo, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob, Icel. hōpr troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. Hope, in Forlorn hope. ] 1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [ Now Low or Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had heaps of friends. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile; as, a heap of trouble. [ Now Low or Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.

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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Heaped p. pr. & vb. n. Heaping. ] [ AS. heápian. ] 1. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though he heap up silver as the dust. Job. xxvii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who heaps, piles, or amasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large quantity. See heap, senses 2 and 3; as, he made heaps of money in the stock market.
Syn. -- tons, dozens, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Lying in heaps. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]