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A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.

That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water. Right of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.…

actice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.

Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor

a, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.

Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic] Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. Shak.

ally attached, formerly worn by professional jesters. -- Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking. -- Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color. -- Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nons…

ibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak.

Much worn. [Obs.] A silly man, in simple weeds forworn. Spenser.

Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. His personal tastes were low and frivolous. Macaulay.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

A silly clown. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]

A silly creature; a simpleton.

A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma…

The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.