n. A dull, sluggish person; a lout.n. The last person in a race.n. Something thick and lumpish; a lump.n. A thick, soft mixture. See the quotation, and compare loblolly.n. A lobworm.n. The pollack.n. The coalfish.n. [⟨ lob, verb] In cricket, a low slow ball.n. In lawn-tennis, a play by which one of the contestants knocks the ball over the head of his opponent into the back part of the court.n. Lob Lie-by-the-fire—the Lubber-flend, as Milton calls him—is a rough kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to haunt some north-country homesteads, where he does the work of the farm-labourers, for no grander wages than “—to earn his cream-bowl duly set.”To throw (a lump or ball, etc.); toss gently or with a slow movement; specifically, in lawn-tennis, to strike (the ball) over the head of one's opponent into the back part of the court.To kick.To be tossed with a slow movement, as a cricket-ball or a shot.To hang down; drop or droop.To hang wearily or languidly; allow to drop or droop.In milling, to break (ore, etc.) into pieces with a hammer for sorting.