rare. [f. SULLEN a.]
1. trans. To make sullen or sluggish.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. xlviii. The Idle man … like a member out of joynt, sullens the whole Body, with an ill disturbing lazinesse.
1894. Amyand, Only a Drummer Boy, iv. 47. [They] prevented Douglas’s happy nature getting completely crushed and sullened.
† 2. intr. To be sullen; to sulk. Obs.
a. 1652. Brome, Covent Gard., I. i. Keeping her chamber whole weeks together, sullenning upon her Samplery breech-work.
