Words that rhyme with tevye

n 1: a large gathering of people of a particular type; "he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire"; "a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him" 2: a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground); "we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks"

adv 1: slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" [syn: heavy, heavily] adj 1: of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture" [ant: light] 2: unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic" [ant: light] 3: of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries" [ant: light] 4: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids" [ant: light] 5: usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it [syn: fleshy, heavy, overweight] 6: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy, heavy] 7: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening] 8: of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas" [ant: light] 9: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water" [ant: light] 10: (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'" 11: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable] 12: of relatively large extent and density; "a heavy line" 13: made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat" 14: prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)] 15: full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" [syn: heavy, sonorous] 16: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" [syn: intemperate, hard, heavy] 17: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty] 18: slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" [syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous] 19: large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery" 20: dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding" 21: sharply inclined; "a heavy grade" 22: full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes" [syn: heavy, weighed down] 23: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, labored, laboured] 24: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome] 25: lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: heavy, leaden] 26: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: heavy, profound, sound, wakeless] 27: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)] n 1: an actor who plays villainous roles 2: a serious (or tragic) role in a play

n 1: a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) 2: a pier that provides a landing place on a river 3: an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

n 1: a charge imposed and collected 2: the act of drafting into military service [syn: levy, levy en masse] v 1: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy, impose] 2: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]

adj 1: unstable by being overloaded at the top

adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] 2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" adj 1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town" 2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)]

n 1: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel [syn: Matthew, Saint Matthew, St. Matthew, Saint Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, Levi]

v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]