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A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.

Senseless; stupid. [R.& Obs.] Milton.

med by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and…

Like a calf; stupid. Sheldon.

Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. Smart.

A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak.

Stupid. [Obs.] Shak.

A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

Without wit; stupid. [Obs.] Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.

A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. [Colloq.]

A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Stupid; folish; idiotic; also, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott.

Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.

Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.

A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the larg…