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Same as Lug, n., 3.

A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock. Spigot and faucet joint, a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.

A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.

A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. Thomson.

r state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

e eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

A flood; a deluge. [Obs.] Huloet.

Heavy; dull; sluggish. "The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course." Sir W. Scott.

mpass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable. L'Estrange. He sums their virtues in himself alone. Dryden.

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.

A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

See Telugu. D. O. Allen.

Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

lso cimolite. -- Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zoöl.) See Pipemouth. -- Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked. -- Tobacco worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with da…

A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone. Knight.