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Like a goose; foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] Gull"ish*ness, n. [Obs.]

A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.

To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate. [Obs.] Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning. Spenser.

An awkward or foolish person. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.

Like an idiot; foolish.

Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness. Worse than mere ignorance or idiotism. Shaftesbury. The running that adventure is the greatist idiotism. Hammond.

Light-headed; foolish. [Obs.] Ford. Idle pulley (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power. -- Idle wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolutio…

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.

In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved. Shak.

Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.

Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. Sir W. Hamilton.

Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.

Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More.

To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment. The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction. Clarendon.

Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.

Simple; artless; foolish. Shak.