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.
