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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak.

An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.

One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] "Fie, you slugabed!" Shak.

A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; considered her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6.

To make lazy. [R.] Shak.

The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower. Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer.

One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [Cant or Slang]

A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang]

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Half-roasted ore.

Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.

Sluggishly. [Obs.] Fotherby.

To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A holothurian.

n to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.

ion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

ne who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.