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Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly. [R.] Blount.

Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish. [R.] Clarendon. -- n.

Insipid; dull; stupid. [Obs.] Milton.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.] The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.

A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.

A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. [Obs.] Spenser.

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]

Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]

To confuse; to stupefy. [Obs.] Holland.

The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure.

Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.

To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]

Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.