☞ The northern beluga (Delphinapterus catodon) is the white whale and white fish of the whalers. It grows to be from twelve to eighteen feet long. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the sturgeon (Huso huso) native to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea; -- also called hausen. It is valued for its roe, sold as caviar, and is also used for production of isinglass. See also sturgeon. [ PJC ]

3. the caviar obtained from the beluga{ 2 }; -- also called beluga caviar. The caviar of the beluga is considered the finest sort, larger and of a taste superior to that obtained from other sturgeon. See also sturgeon and caviar. [ PJC ]

2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. “The deluge of summer.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fiery deluge fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [ London ] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

After me the deluge.
(Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. [ 1913 Webster ]

At length corruption, like a general flood . . .
Shall deluge all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flugelhorn. [ PJC ]

2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which moves slowly. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A measure of length, being 161/2 feet; a rod, pole, or perch. [ Obs. ] “ Eight lugs of ground.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chimney lug, or
Lug pole, a pole on which a kettle is hung over the fire, either in a chimney or in the open air. [ Local, U.S. ] Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The lugworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A man; sometimes implying clumsiness. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

Lug bolt (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt. --
Lug nut (Mach.), a large nut fitting a heavy bolt; -- used especially of the nuts used to attach wheels to vehicles. --
Lug wrench (Mach.), a wrench used to tighten or loosen lug nuts, usually a steel rod having a hexagonally shaped socket which fits closely over the lug nut; sometimes in the shape of a cross, having several such sockets, one at the end of each arm, to accommodate nuts of different sizes. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

What do you mean,
To dote thus on such luggage! Shak.

Syn. -- Plunder; baggage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Luggage van, a vehicle for carrying luggage; a railway car, or compartment of a car, for carrying luggage. [ Eng. ] --
Luggage compartment, the compartment in a train, bus or other vehicle designed for storage of luggage during a journey. Separate from the passenger compartment. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

-- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A high, tapering silk hat. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A worthless horse. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Building) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An act of plugging{ 6 }; a brief mention for the sake of publicity or advertisement, especially during a public event not specifically intended for advertising purposes; as, he put in a plug for his favorite charity. [ PJC ]

Breech plug (Gun.), in breech-loading guns, the metal plug or cylinder which closes the aperture in the breech, through which the gun is loaded. --
Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [ U. S. ] --
Hawse plug (Naut.), a plug to stop a hawse hole. --
Plug and feather. (Stone Working) See Feather, n., 7. --
Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it. --
Plug rod (Steam Eng.) , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine. --
Plug valve (Mech.), a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To briefly publicize or advertise, especially during a public event not specifically intended for advertising purposes; as, during the interview he plugged his new book.
Syn. -- put in a plug for. [ PJC ]

2. The material of which a plug or stopple is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hindrance; an obstruction. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A ship that sails slowly. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. [ Perhaps a different word. ] An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Print.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sea slug. (Zool.) (a) Any nudibranch mollusk. (b) A holothurian. --
Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

To slug in sloth and sensual delight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike heavily. [ Cant or Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. [ 1913 Webster ]

Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [ R. ] “So sluggish a conceit.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]