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Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [Obs.]

Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly. Shak.

Sluggish. [Obs.] Somnolence that is sloggy slumbering Chaucer.

Sluggish; slow. [Prov. Eng.]

Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth"ful*ness, n.

Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. Dryden.

To make sluggish. [Obs.] Milton.

Sluggish; lazy. Dryden.

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

Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. Thomson.

or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

Heavy; dull; sluggish. "The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course." Sir W. Scott.

Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.

Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.