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<hw>Lan"guid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>languidus</ets>, fr. <ets>languere</ets> to be faint or languid: cf. F. <ets>languide</ets>. See <er>Languish</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.</def> " <i>Languid</i>, powerless limbs. "

<i>Armstrong.</i>

<blockquote>Fire their <b>languid</b> souls with Cato's virtue. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Slow in progress; tardy.</def> " No motion so swift or <i>languid</i>."

<i>Bentley.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; <as>as, a <ex>languid</ex> day</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Feebly she laugheth in the <b>languid</b> moon. <i>Keats.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Their idleness, aimless and <b>languid</b> airs. <i>W. Black.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Lan"guid*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Lan"guid*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Languish</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Languished</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Languishing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>languishen</ets>, <ets>languissen</ets>, F. <ets>languir</ets>, L. <ets>languere</ets>; cf. Gr. <?/ to slacken, <?/ slack, Icel. <ets>lakra</ets> to lag behind; prob. akin to E. <ets>lag</ets>, <ets>lax</ets>, and perh. to E. <ets>slack</ets>.See <er>-ish</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.</def>

<blockquote>We . . . do <b>languish</b> of such diseases. <i>2 Esdras viii. 31.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me <b>landguish</b> into life. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>For the fields of Heshbon <b>languish</b>. <i>Is. xvi. 8. </i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.</def>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.</syn>

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<hw>Lan"guish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To cause to dr<?/<?/p or pine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak. Dryden.</i>

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<hw>Lan"guish</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Languishiment</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of <b>languish</b> ? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And the blue <b>languish</b> of soft Allia's eye. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

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