Definition of dull

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Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Fat-wited :: Fat-wited (a.) Dull; stupid.
Ponderous :: Ponderous (a.) Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke..
Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..
Medulla :: Medulla (n.) Marrow; pith; hence, essence..
Heavy-headed :: Heavy-headed (a.) Dull; stupid.
Dead :: Dead (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc..
Chuckleheaded :: Chuckleheaded (a.) Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
Thick-skulled :: Thick-skulled (a.) Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn..
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..
Stun :: Stun (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing..
Fat-brained :: Fat-brained (a.) Dull of apprehension.
Stupefy :: Stupefy (v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
Restiform :: Restiform (a.) Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
Dull-sighted :: Dull-sighted (a.) Having poor eyesight.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension..
Plating :: Plating (n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition..
Blockheaded :: Blockheaded (a.) Stupid; dull.
Lustreless :: Lustreless (a.) Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
Myeloidin :: Myeloidin (n.) A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers..
Deadness :: Deadness (n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like..
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