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atively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.

Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.

A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. [Old Slang] Dr. Favour.

imp. of Slee,to slay. Chaucer.

A sleuthhound. [R.]

In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

The quality or state of being slow.

Milk sickness.

A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off. [Obs.] Bacon.

To render slow; to check; to curb. [Obs.] Hammond.

tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.