Adjective

(-)

At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated) Made of lead.

Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.

* Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats

"Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."

Dull; darkened with overcast.

the sky was leaden and thick

* 1999: Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)

"It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."