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siastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies. They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. Burke.

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury.

sly [i. e., truly] on my soul rue. Chaucer. Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them. Ridley.

of polished marble build, Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell. Sandys. If we are idle, and disturb the industrious in their business, we shall ruin the faster. Locke.

Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. Must I rust in Egypt never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece Dryden.

n is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. Idler.

lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time. Idler.

To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily. To sag to leeward (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel. Totten.

cant pattern of cloth for a garment. His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour. Ridley.

A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.

a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.

A gridle. See 1st Seint. [Obs.]

indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.

Sloth; idleness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.

Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth"ful*ness, n.

A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. [Old Slang] Dr. Favour.

To move slowly; to lie idle. [Obs.] To slug in sloth and sensual delight. Spenser.