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e reparation for; hence, to repay or requite. [Obs.] It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt. God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton.

Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness. He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, Grows strong and great in substance and in power. Shak.

characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management. -- Shift"less*ly, adv. -- Shift"less*ness, n.

uality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.

To omit; to loose by negligence. And slip no advantage That my secure you. B. Jonson.

Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.

To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.

ed by will; given by testament. How many testamentary charities have been defeated by the negligence or fraud of executors! Atterbury.

The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness. Shak.

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. I wolde it do withouten negligence. Chaucer. Wise men will do it without a law. Bacon. Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction. Addison. There is no living with thee nor without thee. Ta…

ation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.