sluggishness (slugishnes)

The state or character of being sluggish, in any sense of that word. [Also sloggy ; sluggy , sluggy (slug'i), a. sloggy ; slug1 +-y1.] Sluggish. [Obsolete or provincial.] Thanue cometh sompnolence, that is sloggy slombrynge, which maketh a man be hevy and dul in body and in soule. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. Lean him on his elbowe, as if sleepe had caught him, Which claimes most interest in such sluggy men. Tourneur , Revenger's Tragedy, iv. 2. slug-horn1 (slug hôrn), n. [ Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] slughorn (slug'hôrn), n. [A corruption of slogan, perhaps simulating slug -horn1.] Same as slogan. [In the second and third quotations used erroneously, as if meaning some kind of horn.] The deaucht trumpet blaw is the brag of were; The slughorne, ensenie, or the wache cry Went for the battall all suld be reddy. Gavin Douglas , tr. of Virgil, p. 230. Some caught a slughorne and an onsett wounde. Chatter ton, Battle of Hastings, ii. 10. 5707 Dauntle the slughorn to my lips I set, And blew "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." God giue vs grace, the weyes for to keepe Of his precepts, and slugly not to sleepe In shame of sinne. slug-shaped (slug'shāpt), a. Limaciform: specifically noting the larvæ of various butterflies which in some respects resemble slugs. E. New man.