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281 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OAFISH.1 (Noah Webster)

OAFISH, a. Stupid; dull; doltish. [Little used.]

282 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OAFISHNESS.1 (Noah Webster)

OAFISHNESS, n. Stupidity; dullness; folly. [Little used.]

283 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBSTUPEFACTION.1 (Noah Webster)

OBSTUPEFACTION, n. [L. obstupefacio.] The act of making stupid or insensible. [See Stupefaction, which is generally used.]

284 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OUTWEIGH.4 (Noah Webster)

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.

285 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PIGHEADED.1 (Noah Webster)

PIGHEADED, a. Having a large head; stupid.

286 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLOD.3 (Noah Webster)

Some stupid, plodding, money-loving wight.

288 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REMAIN.7 (Noah Webster)

4. To continue unchanged, or in a particular state. He remains stupid; he remains in a low state of health.

289 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROUSE.3 (Noah Webster)

2. To excite to thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity or inattention.

291 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENSELESS.7 (Noah Webster)

4. Unreasonable; stupid; acting without sense or judgement.

292 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENSELESS.8 (Noah Webster)

Ther were a senseless stupid race. Swift.

293 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENSELESSNESS.1 (Noah Webster)

SENSELESSNESS, n. sens’lessness. Unreasonableness; folly; stupidity; absurdity.

294 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SILLY.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness of folly; unwise; as silly thoughts; silly actions; a silly scheme; writings stupid or silly.

295 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOT.2 (Noah Webster)

1. A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

296 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOT.5 (Noah Webster)

SOT, v.i. To tipple to stupidity. [Little used.]

297 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISH.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very foolish. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!

298 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISHNESS.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Dullness in the exercise reason; stupidity. Few consider into what a degree of sottishness and confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves.

300 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STARE.3 (Noah Webster)

… , surprise, stupidity, horror, fright and sometimes by eagerness to hear or learn something, sometimes by impudence. We say, he stared with astonishment.