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Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take. With wanton heed and giddy cunning. Milton. Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam. xx. 10. Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts. Bacon.

Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt. Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams Congreve.

sposed. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech. Judges ix. 3. Power finds its balance, giddy motions cease In both the scales, and each inclines to peace. Parnell.

A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.

Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy. Are his wits safe Is he not light of brain Shak.

Too light or frivolous; giddy.

Giddy; rattle-headed.

Noisy; giddy; unsteady.

To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.

r compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak.

A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. [Written also scatter-brains.]

Giddy; thoughtless.

Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. I. Watts. Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show. Words…

Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.] Johnson.

the country. Always hankering after the diversions of the town. Addison. Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. Pope.

edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. -- To turn the head or brain of, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head. -- To turn the scale or balance, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful…

Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.

Turned round; giddy. [R.] Coleridge.

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. Jer. Taylor. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.

Light; giddy. [Obs.] They wroughten all their lust volage. Chaucer.