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A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. )

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.

or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.

A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the larg…

A trifler; a simple fellow.

A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.

Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. Longfellow.

To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.

As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

tes on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

ak. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. Longfellow.

ents, etc. Seen in life's early morning sky. Keble. The forms of its earlier manhood. Longfellow. The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succ…

egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton.

Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.

lysian age." Beattie. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Longfellow.

door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.

In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. The deeds of love and high emprise. Longfellow.