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Tenancy. [Obs.] Ridley.

For that reason; therefore. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. Milton.

A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

ty to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house. Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year. Milton.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion. To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser. What if a toy take'em in the heels now, and they all run away. Beau. &Fl. Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne

Like a truant; in idleness.

The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy. Ascham.

Idle trifling; twaddle.

Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

o tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key. [Written also twidle.] Thackeray.

d to work; unemployed; not busy. [R.] These unbusied persons can continue in this playing idleness till it become a toil. Bp. Rainbow

Want of culture. "Idleness, ill husbandry . . . unculture." Bp. Hall.

Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations. Paley.

ot governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.