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Sullen Sullen Sul"len, n.
1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.
2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to
have the sullens. [Obs.] --Shak.
Sullen Sullen Sul"len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen;
through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L.
solus alone. See Sole, a.]
1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Job iii. 14).
2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. --Milton.
Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. --Shak.
3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. --Dryden.
4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill
humor; morose.
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. --Prior.
5. Obstinate; intractable.
Things are as sullen as we are. --Tillotson.
6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. ``The larger stream was placid, and
even sullen, in its course.' --Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish;
fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign;
intractable.
Usage: Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show
themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an
habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary
sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition;
the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury.
Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The
dreaded east is all the wind that blows. --Pope.
-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n.
Sullen Sullen Sul"len, v. t.
To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.]
Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. --Feltham.
Sullenly Sullen Sul"len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen;
through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L.
solus alone. See Sole, a.]
1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Job iii. 14).
2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. --Milton.
Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. --Shak.
3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. --Dryden.
4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill
humor; morose.
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. --Prior.
5. Obstinate; intractable.
Things are as sullen as we are. --Tillotson.
6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. ``The larger stream was placid, and
even sullen, in its course.' --Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish;
fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign;
intractable.
Usage: Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show
themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an
habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary
sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition;
the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury.
Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The
dreaded east is all the wind that blows. --Pope.
-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n.
Sullenness Sullen Sul"len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen;
through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L.
solus alone. See Sole, a.]
1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Job iii. 14).
2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. --Milton.
Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. --Shak.
3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. --Dryden.
4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill
humor; morose.
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. --Prior.
5. Obstinate; intractable.
Things are as sullen as we are. --Tillotson.
6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. ``The larger stream was placid, and
even sullen, in its course.' --Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish;
fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign;
intractable.
Usage: Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show
themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an
habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary
sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition;
the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury.
Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The
dreaded east is all the wind that blows. --Pope.
-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n.
Sullevate Sullevate Sul"le*vate, v. t. [L. sublevare to raise up. Cf.
Sublevation.]
To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] --Daniel.
