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The act of stopping with a plug.

A holothurian.

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak.

An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.

One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] "Fie, you slugabed!" Shak.

A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; considered her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6.

To make lazy. [R.] Shak.

The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower. Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer.

One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [Cant or Slang]

A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang]

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Half-roasted ore.

Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.

In internal-combustion engines with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder head, having through it an insulated wire which is connected with the induction coil or magneto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on the base of the plug, a spark gap inside the cylinder.

One of the people speaking the Telugu language.

to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.