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Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." Shak.

A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage. [Colloq.]

A lazy person. [Colloq.]

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

See Sleazy.

An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

Idle; lazy. [Obs.]

A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.]

e honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden.

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. [Obs.] Shak.

A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.

easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man. Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat. Carlyle.

An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

h the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like the night owl's lazy flight. Shak.

A lazy person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Tusser.

conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.