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ownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

ds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing. I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.

To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Thick-skulled; stupid.

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] Gull"ish*ness, n. [Obs.]

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.

Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.

To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

To become stupid. [R.]

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce. An ignoramus in place and power. South.

Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

xhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay.

Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly. [R.] N. Bacon.