Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14).
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak.
Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. Dryden.
Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior.
Obstinate; intractable. Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson.
Heavy; dull; sluggish. "The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course." Sir W. Scott.
One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [Obs.] Shak.
To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham.
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