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Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

A stupid person. [Obs.]

Having been made stupid.

Quality of being stupid.

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.

Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

ilton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley.

Having a thick skull; stupid.

Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

A thick-headed or stupid person. [Colloq.]

Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly, adv. -- Thought"less*ness, n.

The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.

A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.

Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.

Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness. We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology. Sweet.