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A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that den below. G. Fletcher.

mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures. Alva, as usual, brought his dilatory policy to bear upon hiMotley. Dilatory plea (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case.…

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

Full of condemnation or destructive power. [R.] "That doomful deluge." Drayton.

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden.

To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.]

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. [Obs.] Shak.

Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing. Matt. xiii. 15. O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue. Spenser.

In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.

l; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.

A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.