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nning 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.

In a stagnant manner.

Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.

Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

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

A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.

scure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.

State of being stagnant.

Stagnant. [Obs.] "A stagnate mass of vapors." Young.

The condition 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.

Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.

Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. Addison.

ng ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.