Definition of idle

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Idle (superl.) Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours..

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Tattling :: Tattling (a.) Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.
Project :: Project (n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects..
Fume :: Fume (n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination..
Sponge :: Sponge (v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor..
Otiose :: Otiose (a.) Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
Idled :: Idled (imp. & p. p.) of Idl.
Crownpiece :: Crownpiece (n.) A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle..
Seynt :: Seynt (n.) A gridle. See 1st Seint.
Twaddy :: Twaddy (n.) Idle trifling; twaddle.
Loiterer :: Loiterer (n.) An idle vagrant; a tramp.
Branks :: Branks (n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold..
Truant :: Truant (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk..
Leisurable :: Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Lewd :: Lewd (superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious..
Bit :: Bit (v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
Gaddingly :: Gaddingly (adv.) In a roving, idle manner..
Truant :: Truant (v. t.) To idle away; to waste.
Trapes :: Trapes (n.) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman..
Fiddle :: Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..
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