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Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimless; idleness; as, intellectual flânerie.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. Is this a time for fooling Dryden.

easons strong and forcible. Shak. That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. )

judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall. Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. J. Webster.

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours. Milton.

Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or' airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies. Bacon.

The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]

One addicted to idle talk.

In a roving, idle manner.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. The gemmy bridle glittered free. Tennyson.

ot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person. My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing. Ld. Lytton. -- Good Friday, the Friday of Holy Week, kept in some churches as a fast, in memoory of our Savior's passion or suffering; the annivers…

One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. The common chat of gossips when they meet. Dryden.

Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.

e or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth. Shak.

- Guide pulley (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler. Knight. -- Guide rail (Railroads), an additional rail, between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.

A bridle iron.