Addle |
Liquid filth; mire. |
n. |
Addle |
Lees; dregs. |
n. |
Addle |
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. |
a. |
Addle |
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. |
v. t. & i. |
Addle |
To earn by labor. |
v. t. & i. |
Addle |
To thrive or grow; to ripen. |
v. t. & i. |
Addle-brain |
Alt. of Addle-pate |
n. |
Addle-pate |
A foolish or dull-witted fellow. |
n. |
Addle-brained |
Alt. of Addle-pated |
a. |
Addle-headed |
Alt. of Addle-pated |
a. |
Addle-pated |
Dull-witted; stupid. |
a. |
Addle-patedness |
Stupidity. |
n. |
Shock-head |
Shock-headed. |
a. |
Snake's-head |
The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. |
n. |
Tough-head |
The ruddy duck. |
n. |
Tow-head |
An urchin who has soft, whitish hair. |
n. |
Tow-head |
The hooded merganser. |
n. |
Woolly-head |
A negro. |
n. |
Cittern-head |
Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. |
n. |
Cubbridge-head |
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. |
n. |