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Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Tay…

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.

One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead Plautus (trans. 1694).

the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. -- Bull snake (Zoöl.), the pine snake of the United…

A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.

Senseless; stupid. [R.& Obs.] Milton.

ed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and…

Like a calf; stupid. Sheldon.

Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.

Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. Smart.

A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak.

Stupid. [Obs.] Shak.

A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

Without wit; stupid. [Obs.] Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.

A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. [Colloq.]

Having the characteristics of a cretin. "Cretinous stupefaction." Ruskin.