Linger :: Linger (a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
Linger :: Linger (v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
Linger :: Linger (v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed..
Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..
Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..
Palingenetic :: Palingenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process..
Slinger :: Slinger (n.) One who slings, or uses a sling..