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on by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

e who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.

The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

r Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. -- White bedstraw is G. mollugo.

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.

t forth violently, as a storm. The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, A second deluge o'er our head may break. Shak.

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

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

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

A French coasting lugger.

A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes. Smart.

A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

(usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal wires or plugs (called conductor plugs).

th a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

mprovements, 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.

A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.