What is to be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak called?
mope — To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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