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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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259 words match “TUP”

ASINEGO; ASSINEGO n.

A stupid fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." B. Jonson. "Asinine feast." Milton.

The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.

ASS n. 2 definitions

domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate. Such . . . appear to be of the assich kind . . . Udall.

ASTON; ASTONE v.

To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ASTONISHMENT n.

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

To stun; to stupefy. No puissant stroke his senses once astound. Fairfax.

To stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees.…

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed…

A stupid, clownish fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." Goodman.

Stupid; dull. Shak.

BEETLE-HEADED a.

Dull; stupid. Shak.

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.