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Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

e equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

ted suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. [Colloq.]

A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.…

ooks of argument. Locke. Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. 2. Tim. iii. 6.

. It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc. With damasc roses and daffadowndillies set. Spenser. Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. A college gown That clad…

f the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

Foolish; silly; trifling. [R.]

To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South.…

That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n.

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

A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural. [Eng.] Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs. Sandys.

ctice 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.

Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably. Fair and square, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. [Colloq.] -- To bid fair. See under Bid. -- To speak fair, to address with courtesy and frankness. [Archaic]

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

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