Category:Slow

Slow, obs.

Defn: imp. of slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Slow Slow, a. [compar. Slower; superl. Slowest.] Etym: [oe. slow, slaw, As. slaw; akin to os. sl blunt, dull, d. sleeuw, slee, sour, ohg. sl Blunt, dull, icel. sl, sl, dan. slöv, sw. slö. Cf. Sloe, and sloth.]

1. Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not Quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; A slow motion.

2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late. These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced like change on Sea and land, sidereal blast. Milton.

3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of Speech, and slow of tongue. Fixed on defense, the trojans are not slow to guard their shore from An expected foe. Dryden.

4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; Inactive. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. Prov. xiv. 29.

5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, The clock or watch is slow.

6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts And sciences.

7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [colloq.] Dickens. Thackeray.

Note: slow is often used in the formation of compounds for the most Part self-explaining; as, slow-gaited, slow-paced, slow-sighted, Slow-winged, and the like. Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, Above. [colloq.] -- slow lemur, or slow loris (zoöl.), an east indian Nocturnal lemurine animal (nycticebus tardigradus) about the size of A small cat; -- so called from its slow and deliberate movements. It Has very large round eyes and is without a tail. Called also bashful Billy. -- slow match. See under match.

Syn. -- dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull; inactive. -- slow, tardy, dilatory. Slow is the wider term, denoting either a Want of rapid motion or inertness of intellect. Dilatory signifies a Proneness to defer, a habit of delaying the performance of what we Know must be done. Tardy denotes the habit of being behind hand; as, Tardy in making up one's acounts.

Slow Slow, adv.

Defn: slowly. Let him have time to mark how slow time goes in time of sorrow. Shak.

Slow Slow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slowing.]

Defn: to render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; As, to slow a steamer. Shak.

Slow Slow, v. i.

Defn: to go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before Crossing the bridge.

Slow Slow, n.

Defn: a moth. [obs.] Rom. of r.