William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated on a number of light operas. See Gilbert. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. suluh, sulh, a plow; cf. OHG. suohili a little plow. ] A plow. [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Suillage, Sulliage. ] 1. Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which sullies or defiles. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Founding) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Hydraul. Engin.) Silt; mud deposited by water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sullage piece (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See Sole, a. ] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. [ 1913 Webster ]

And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Obstinate; intractable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. “The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish; fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign; intractable. -- Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition; the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury. Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit. [ 1913 Webster ]

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows;
The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. sublevare to raise up. Cf. Sublevation. ] To rouse; to excite. [ Obs. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sullage, Suillage, or Sully, v. t. ] Foulness; filth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sullied p. pr. & vb. n. Sullying ] [ OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to G. suhle mire, sich, sühlen to wallow, Sw. söla to bemire, Dan. söle, Goth. bisaulijan to defile. ] To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become soiled or tarnished. [ 1913 Webster ]

Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sullies Soil; tarnish; stain. [ 1913 Webster ]

A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]