slow loris
         n 1: stocky lemur of southeastern Asia [syn: {slow loris},
               {Nycticebus tardigradua}, {Nycticebus pygmaeus}]

English Dictionary: slow loris	by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slow \Slow\, a. [Compar. {Slower}; superl. {Slowest}.] [OE.       slow, slaw, AS. sl[be]w; akin to OS. sl[?]u blunt, dull, D.       sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl[?]o blunt, dull, Icel. sl[?]r,       sl[?]r, Dan. sl[94]v, Sw. sl[94]. Cf. {Sloe}, and {Sloth}.]       1. Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift;             not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as,             a slow stream; a slow motion.          2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.                         These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced                      Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.                                                                               --Milton.          3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as,             slow of speech, and slow of tongue.                         Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard                      their shore from an expected foe.      --Dryden.          4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation;             tardy; inactive.                         He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.                                                                               --Prov. xiv.                                                                               29.          5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true             time; as, the clock or watch is slow.          6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of             arts and sciences.          7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome;             dull. [Colloq.] --Dickens. Thackeray.          Note: Slow is often used in the formation of compounds for                the most part self-explaining; as, slow-gaited,                slow-paced, slow-sighted, slow-winged, and the like.          {Slow coach}, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.]          {Slow lemur}, or {Slow loris} (Zo[94]l.), an East Indian             nocturnal lemurine animal ({Nycticebus tardigradus}) about             the size of a small cat; -- so called from its slow and             deliberate movements. It has very large round eyes and is             without a tail. Called also {bashful Billy}.          {Slow match}. See under {Match}.          Syn: Dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull;                inactive.          Usage: {Slow}, {Tardy}, {Dilatory}. Slow is the wider term,                   denoting either a want of rapid motion or inertness of                   intellect. Dilatory signifies a proneness to defer, a                   habit of delaying the performance of what we know must                   be done. Tardy denotes the habit of being behind hand;                   as, tardy in making up one's acounts.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n.   [Usenet; poss. from the variety of    sloth called a "slow loris". The variant `Slowlartus' is also    common, related to {LART}] Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's    System VR4 version of UNIX that came out of the standardization wars    of the early 1990s. So named because especially on older hardware,    responsiveness was much less crisp than under the preceding SunOS.    Early releases of Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some {marketroid}s    at Sun retroactively rechristened SunOS as Solaris 1) were quite    buggy, and Sun was forced by customer demand to support SunOS for    quite some time. Newer versions are acknowledged to be among the best       commercial UNIX variants in 1998, but still lose single-processor    benchmarks to Sparc {Linux}. Compare {AIDX}, {HP-SUX}, {Nominal    Semidestructor}, {Telerat}, {sun-stools}.