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Dull; heavy; stupid. [R.] J. P. Smith.

A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.

Stupid. [Colloq.]

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relaps into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury.

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]

ion or character by one's own judgment. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. Pope.

te of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. They were a sen…

Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." Milton.

To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dOldham.

(Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus Tupaia. They are allied to the shrews, but have a bushy tail, like that of a squirrel. -- Squirrel-tail grass (Bot.), a grass (Hordeum jubatum) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long…

The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open. "A dull and stupid stare." Churchill.

A kind of high rustic shoe. [Obs.] Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.