adj. (old).—Melancholy; dull; dispirited and heavy.
1592. NASHE, Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell [GROSART (1885), ii. 82]. Heavy, LUMPISH, and sleepie.
1621. BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 1852), i. 169. We call him melancholy that is dull, sad, sour, LUMPISH, ill-disposed, solitary.
1664. J. WILSON, The Projectors, i. 1. At home you’re as sad and LUMPISH as a gibb’d cat.
