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An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.

false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.

Australian marsupial (Perameles lagotis) resembling a rabbit in size and form. -- Native sloth (Zoöl.), the koala. -- Native thrush (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird (Pachycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead. -- Native turkey (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); -- called also bebilya.…

pecially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

The act of devouring other creatures; ravage. Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, . . . lion in prey. Shak. Beast of prey, a carnivorous animal; one that feeds on the flesh of other animals.

Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty. "Rustful sloth." Quarles.

e sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

Sloth; idleness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To move slowly; to lie idle. [Obs.] To slug in sloth and sensual delight. Spenser.

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

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

To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.

rtaining to a spline. Splining machine, a machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.

A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.

A sloth.

A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.

To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.

f the fallow field traverse. Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.