1. (a.) Lonely; solitary; desolate.

2. (a.) Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

3. (a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

4. (a.) Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.

5. (a.) Obstinate; intractable.

6. (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.

7. (n.) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

8. (n.) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.

9. (v. t.) To make sullen or sluggish.

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