Sentence:  But Richmond...appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the <WSD>massive</WSD> silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or pertaining to a large mass; weighty, heavy, or bulky.