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a. Sluggish; lazy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make lazy. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. sloggardye. ] The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [ Cant or Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. (Baseball) a measure of the effectiveness of a batter at reaching base and advancing other runners, calculated as the sum of the number of bases reached on each hit, divided by the total number of times at bat. A double counts two bases, a triple three, a home run four. Thus a batter with four singles, two doubles and a triple in 20 official times at bat would have a slugging average of 0.550, and a batting average of 0.350. Also called slugging percentage. Compare batting average. [ PJC ]

. (a) A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [ Cant or Slang ] (b) A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. [ 1913 Webster ]

Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [ R. ] “So sluggish a conceit.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]