1. Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]
2. Lees; dregs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Addle
(Ad"dle), a. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful
or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.
Addle
(Ad"dle), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Addling ] To make addle; to grow
addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." Cowper.
Addle
(Ad"dle), v. t. & i. [OE. adlen, adilen, to gain, acquire; prob. fr. Icel. öðlask to acquire property,
akin to oðal property. Cf. Allodial.]
1. To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.
2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.]
Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more.
Tusser.
Addle-brain
(Ad"dle-brain` Ad"dle-head`) Ad"dle- pate n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]
Addle-brained
(Ad"dle-brained` Ad"dle-head`ed) Addle-pated
(Ad"dle-pa`ted) a. Dull-witted; stupid.
"The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley.
Dull and addle-pated.
Dryden.
Addle-patedness
(Ad"dle-pa`ted*ness) n. Stupidity.
Addlings
(Ad"dlings) n. pl. [See Addle, to earn.] Earnings. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Addoom
(Ad*doom") v. t. [Pref. a- + doom.] To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.
Addorsed
(Ad*dorsed") a. [L. ad + dorsum, back: cf. F. adossé.] (Her.) Set or turned back to back.
Address
(Ad*dress") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addressed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Addressing.] [OE. adressen
to raise erect, adorn, OF. adrecier, to straighten, address, F. adresser, fr. à (L. ad) + OF. drecier, F.
dresser, to straighten, arrange. See Dress, v.]
1. To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer.
And this good knight his way with me addrest.
Spenser.
2. To prepare or make ready. [Obs.]
His foe was soon addressed.
Spenser.
Turnus addressed his men to single fight.
Dryden.
The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.
Jer. Taylor.
3. Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
These men addressed themselves to the task.
Macaulay.
4. To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic]
Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel.
Jewel.
