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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak.

er to stir or move itself. Woodward. And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow.

Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan. Fast asleep It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dry…

A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] Fielding.

thy. [Written also smiddy.] Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.

ug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.

A greedy fellow. L'Estrange.

One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.

A mean, sneaking fellow. A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks. Glanvill.

A paltry fellow; a sneak. [Obs.] "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.

A small, insignificant fellow. [Colloq.]

A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.

A mean, insignificant fellow. [Low]

A miser; a sneaking fellow. [Obs.]

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron.

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

Somewhat weak in intellect. [Colloq.] He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad. Burton.

An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat. Trench. The solidarity . . . of Breton…

Gloomy; somber. "Tall and sombrous pines." Longfellow. -- Som"brous*ly, adv. -- Som"brous*ness, n.

Shak. On its outer point, some miles away. The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry. Longfellow.