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A stupid person; a dunce. Shak. -- a.

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.

Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert. -- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n.

Dullness; stupidity.

To make stupid in intellect. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Thick-headed; stupid.

Deaf; stupid.[Prov. Eng.] My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.

to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson. Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10.

Dull; stupid. Shak.

Stupid; fatuous.

Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

A stupid or insignaficant fellow; a fool; a simpleton. [R.] Hudibras.

To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. Pepys.

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