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The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. Keep his brain fuming. Shak.

Made or consisting of interlocked rings, gimmal mail. In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chewed grass. Shak. Gimmal joint. See Gimbal joint, under Gimbal.

Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. "In his glassy eye." Byron. Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue. Lindley.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

key of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseoviridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.

Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. Milton.

Heavy; dull. [Prov.]

Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.

To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Dull; stupid. [Obs.]

Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

Monotonous; dull; commonplace. "A humdrum crone." Bryant.

n impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. "Impenetrably armed." Milton. "Impenetrably dull." Pope.