Crossword clues for lolling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loll \Loll\ (l[o^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lolled (l[o^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Lolling.] [Cf. Icel. lolla to act lazily, loll, lolla, laziness, OD. lollen to sit over the fire, and E. lull. Cf. Lill, Lull.]
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To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease; as, to loll around the house on a lazy summer day.
Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
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To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
--Dryden. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who lolls. vb. 1 (present participle of loll English) 2 (present participle of lol English)
WordNet
adj. lying in a relaxed manner [syn: lounging]
Usage examples of "lolling".
One leaned on the pig’s rump in case she jack-knifed, another pulled back her head by those lolling ears.
Something grated damply on stone, and then the grip that was bruising her was abruptly gone, and the body that now dwarfed her own toppled past her, crashing into the casket that had held it, its head lolling loosely.
Again, and again until the thing that looked like an egg with its top shattered and gone broke free of the shoulders it was lolling on and fell, to roll away among the silent caskets.
The man ahead of him was a warrior in the armor of Ornentar, head lolling loosely over a slit and gaping throat.
They seemed almost drunken, reeling with their heads lolling, but their limbs jerked with wild speed.
Scales were appearing on the bodies of priests and priestesses, and the tongues lolling beneath those dark, dead eyes were suddenly long, forked, red, and darting.
She might be the ideal partner for lolling about a sandy beach, but as a constant companion in a dangerous profession -- that was different.
He collapsed into a seating unit, his head lolling against its back as he roared.
When Brekke noticed Jaxom's head lolling to one side, he didn't resist her ordering him back to the shelter.
Many of the protruding ledges already held dragons lolling in the sunlight.
She spotted one dragon lolling with its neck extended out over the ledge of its weyr, saw it sneeze and send a cloud of green ooze spraying down and out across the Bowl.
Hands trembling, he almost lost his hold on Embra's suddenly heavier body—as she collapsed with a gasp, head lolling in senselessness.
He reached his hand up and felt it lolling against his head like a big, vague paddle.
His daughter found him, head lolling, oozing mucus from mouth and nose, eyes fat and pale and as alert as poached eggs, in the scrubland by a rusting gas tower in Abrogate Green.
Jabber’s Mound, the sun came up on a fallen trow, its grave-pale limbs heavy and lifeless, even though it breathed, lolling face down beside a slick of stolen and forgotten meat.