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Having no energy; sluggish. [R.] Boyle.

Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay. It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and at length utterly inert. I. Taylor.

Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness. Men . . . have immense irresolution and inertia. Carlyle.

Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.

Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

te or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

erflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie.

An East Indian falcon. See Lugger.

The colugo.

e common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.

Slow; sluggish; backward.

Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." Shak.

Heavy; dull; sluggish. "Leaden slumber." Shak.

w lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]

Slowness; delay; sluggishness. Arbuthnot.

Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.

hose of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.