Idle
(I"dle), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Idled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Idling ] To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business. Shak.

Idle
(I"dle), v. t. To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; — often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.

Idle-headed
(I"dle-head`ed) a.

1. Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.

2. Delirious; infatuated. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Idleness
(I"dle*ness), n. [AS. idelnes.] The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Syn. — Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.

Idle-pated
(I"dle-pat`ed) a. Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

Idler
(I"dler) n.

1. One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

2. (Naut.) One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch. Totten.

3. (Mach.) An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.

Idless
(I"dless, I"dlesse) n. Idleness. [Archaic] "In ydlesse." Spenser.

And an idlesse all the day
Beside a wandering stream.
Mrs. Browning.

Idly
(I"dly) adv. In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

Idocrase
(Id"o*crase) n. [Gr. e'i^dos form + kra^sis mixture, fr. keranny`nai to mix; cf. F. idocrase.] (Min.) Same as Vesuvianite.

Idol
(I"dol) n. [OE. idole, F. idole, L. idolum, fr. Gr. fr. that which is seen, the form, shape, figure, fr. to see. See Wit, and cf. Eidolon.]

1. An image or representation of anything. [Obs.]

Do her adore with sacred reverence,
As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence.
Spenser.

2. An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god.

That they should not worship devils, and idols of gold.
Rev. ix. 20.

3. That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.

The soldier's god and people's idol.
Denham.

4. A false notion or conception; a fallacy. Bacon.

The idols of preconceived opinion.
Coleridge.


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