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93 words match “SLOWLY”

INSINUATE v. 2 definitions
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement. The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables. Woodward.
INSTILL v.
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton.
JOG v.
To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way. Shak. So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot. Milton . The good old ways our sires jogged safely ov…
LABOR v.
ease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. The stone that labors up the hill. Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. Pope. To cure the disorder und…
LAG v.
To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. "I shall not lag behind." Milton.
LAPSE v.
To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended. Swift. Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burle…
LARGHETTO a.
Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante.
LARGO a.
Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn. -- n.
LAZINESS n.
The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.
LEA n.
A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. "Plow-torn leas." Shak. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.
LENTAMENTE adv.
Slowly; in slow time.
LENTO a.
Slow; in slow time; slowly; -- rarely written lente.
LIGHT v.
rom, off, on, upon, at, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. Tennyson.
LINGERINGLY adv.
With delay; slowly; tediously.
LOW v.
To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.
LUG v. 2 definitions
To move slowly and heavily.
MYXOMYCETES n.
, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food. -- Myx`o*my*ce"tous (#), a.
NIBBLE v.
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits. Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. Shak.
NORTH a.
t north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.
OBLITERATE v.
the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.
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