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.
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, adv. Slowly.
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow.
Shak.
Slow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slowing.] To
render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow
a steamer. Shak.
Slow, v. i. To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up
before crossing the bridge.
Slow, n. A moth. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Slow"back` (?), n. A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. [Old Slang]
Dr. Favour.
Slowh (?), obs. imp. of Slee,to slay. Chaucer.