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ne substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid.

Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay. It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and at length utterly inert. I. Taylor.

Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.

Pertaining to, or derived from, isatin; as, isatic acid, which is also called trioxindol.

s of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol. Methyl ketol, a weak organic base, obtained as a white crystalline substance having the odor of fæces.

One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." The Century.

ng away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease. Void of care, he lolls supine in state. Dryden.

One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.

Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.

Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease. [R.] Thackeray.

To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

faction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N.

Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth"ful*ness, n.

Fig.: One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. Woodward.

sion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.