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Without motion; being at rest.

Motionless; destitute of breezes. A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul. Shenstone.

Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.

To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proced; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.…

e uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.

Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.

One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more or less thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zoöloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance.…

t, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm.

ting disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.

Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.

Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.

Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil. [R.] "The sedentary earth." Milton. The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature. Spectator.

To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to. Specifically: --

One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi. J. H. Balfour.

That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.

of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.

To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless. Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden.

Like a statue; motionless.