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Downcast or melancholy look. That downcast of thine eye. Beau. & Fl.

Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. Keble.

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan.

Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert. -- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n.

Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.

Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser.

ters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. Drayton.

Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.

Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

What may be got without skill or merit. Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Shak.

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

s; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.

So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.

Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] When we are hipped or in high spirits. R. L. Stevenson.

To make melancholy. [Colloq.] W. Irving.

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.