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Sloth and Snail Definitions

Sloth

Aversion to work or exertion; laziness; indolence.

Snail

Any of numerous aquatic or terrestrial gastropod mollusks that typically have a spirally coiled shell, retractile foot, and distinct head.

Sloth

A member of the genus Bradypus, having three long-clawed toes on each forefoot. Also called ai, three-toed sloth.

Snail

A slow-moving, lazy, or sluggish person.

Sloth

A member of the genus Choloepus, having two toes on each forefoot. Also called two-toed sloth, unau.

Snail

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
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Sloth

A group of bears.

Snail

A slow person; a sluggard.

Sloth

(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

Snail

(engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

Sloth

(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.

Snail

A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
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Sloth

(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Snail

The pod of the snail clover.

Sloth

To be idle; to idle (away time).

Snail

(railroading) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

Sloth

Slowness; tardiness.
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhorThis dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

Snail

To move or travel very slowly.
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Sloth

Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
[They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.

Snail

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidæ. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.

Sloth

Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidæ, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.

Snail

Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

Sloth

To be idle.

Snail

A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

Sloth

A disinclination to work or exert yourself

Snail

A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.

Sloth

Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

Snail

The pod of the sanil clover.

Sloth

Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Snail

Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

Snail

Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

Snail

Gather snails;
We went snailing in the summer

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