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   Slow , obs. imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Slow , a. [Compar. Slower ; superl. Slowest.] [OE. slow, slaw, AS. slāw; akin to OS. slēu blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. slēo blunt, dull, Icel. slōr, slær, Dan. slöv, Sw. slö.  Cf. Sloe, and Sloth.]
   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.
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   Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
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   These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced
   Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
   Milton.
   
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   Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
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   Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow
   To guard their shore from an expected foe.
   Dryden.
   
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   Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
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   He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
   Prov. xiv. 29.
   
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   Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
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   Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
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   Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.]
   Dickens. Thackeray.
   
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   ☞ 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.
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   Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.] -- Slow lemur, or Slow loris (Zool.),  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.
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   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.
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3.       
   Slow, adv. Slowly.
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   Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
   In time of sorrow.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
   
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5.       
   Slow, v. i. To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
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6.       
   Slow, n. A moth. [Obs.]
   Rom. of R.
   
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