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g from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison.

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

Feeble; languid. [R.] Dryden.

Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. -- Flag"ging*ly, adv.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases. 2 Esdras viii. 31. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life. Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish. Is. xvi. 8.…

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

tate of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

Languid; drooping.[Obs.] Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton. Lank hair, long, thin hair. Macaulay.

gorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.

ent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. Milton. These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss. Roscommon. Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. Woodward.

To belong; to pertain. [Obs.] A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle.

Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.

Splenetic. Shak. Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash. T. N. Page.

To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott.

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.