Leaden
['led(ə)n] or ['lɛdn]
Definition
(adj.) (of movement) slow and laborious; 'leaden steps' .
(adj.) made heavy or weighted down with weariness; 'his leaden arms'; 'weighted eyelids' .
(adj.) made of lead; 'a leaden weight' .
Inputed by Frieda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
(a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.
(a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.
Edited by Cheryl
Examples
- The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It must be prepared in a leaden vessel. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Sixteen leaden bullets, of an ounce each, weigh as much in water as one of a pound, whose superfices is less. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I lifted up the leaden hand, and held it to my heart; and all the world seemed death and silence, broken only by his mother's moaning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He jumped up, and the leaden eyes which twinkled behind his mountainous cheeks leered horribly upon the food as he unpacked it from the basket. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Leaden weights are attached to the diver, and his shoes are weighted, that he may be able to descend a ladder, walk about below, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The materials are mixed together in a small closed wooden or leaden vessel, provided with an agitator, that can be worked by a handle fixed to a projecting axis at the top. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The same livid leaden change passed over his face which I had seen pass over it at the theatre. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Did not her mighty messenger, the ancient Iss, bear you upon her leaden bosom at your own behest to the Valley Dor? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I passed the dark window of the spare room, trying the leaden roof at each step with my foot before I risked resting my weight on it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His hands,' taking up one of them, which dropped like a leaden weight, 'get numbed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Each of these plates is built up, as shown in detail in Fig. 65, of lead strips corrugated and arranged in layers alternately with flat strips, within perforated leaden cases. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A large circular fish-pond with stone sides, and an allegorical leaden monster in the middle, occupies the centre of the square. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Why then,' said the boy, 'you was to come to him at six o'clock to our 'ouse, 'cos he wants to see you--Blue Boar, Leaden'all Markit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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