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Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] What a block art thou ! Shak.

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

Stupid; dull.

That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.

Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.

Like a block; stupid.

To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak.

Dull; stupid. Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor! Shak.

Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse. -- n.

A dunce; a stupid fellow.

Stupid; dull.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.