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A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that den below. G. Fletcher.

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures. Alva, as usual, brought his dilatory policy to bear upon hiMotley. Dilatory plea (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case.…

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden.

To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.]

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. [Obs.] Shak.

Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing. Matt. xiii. 15. O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue. Spenser.

In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.

A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott.

The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.