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Not diligent; idle; slothful. [Obs.] Feltham. -- In*dil"i*gent*ly, adv. [Obs.]

prehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser.

One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.

Informing; giving information; talebearing. [Obs.] Shak. That sad intelligencing tyrant. Milton.

Intelligence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.

In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.

Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals.

Having the qualities of honey. [R.]

Wrong information; misinformation.

An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.

The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.

Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.

In a negligent manner.

To attach, as by a bond. [Obs.] He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself. Bacon.

The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. Blackstone.

bligation. [R.] I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.

One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.