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of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow.

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Idle; lazy. [Obs.]

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, bu…

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

or quantity. [Obs.] Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak.

ossession. Gen xvii. 8. And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope.

scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.] An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

ence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson.

A blinder on a horse's bridle.

A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott.

bleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.

ers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.