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task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.

minately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castels. Motley.

Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

Clumsy; awkward.

A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat.

Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. Landor.

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.

A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Ca…

Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness, n.

To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce. "If you'll patch a quarrel." Shak.

Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.

A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. [Colloq.]

Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy. [Prov. Eng.]

A large, clumsy horse. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

heavy; coarse; clumsy. [Colloq.]

To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. He stumbled up the dark avenue. Sir W. Scott.