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A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick. [Colloq.]

Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

lton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley.

A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written also tarentism.]

Having a thick skull; stupid.

Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

A thick-headed or stupid person. [Colloq.]

Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly, adv. -- Thought"less*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. De Quincey.

The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.

A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.

Ravishment; rape; constupration. To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . did violence on herself." Shak. -- To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.

Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.

Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness. We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology. Sweet.