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One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. [Archaic] Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.

To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] Shak.

s will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue. Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows. Locke.

To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record. [Obs.] They neglect to memorize their conquest. Spenser. They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha. Shak.

Neglect; undervaluing; contempt. [Obs.] Shak.

s a moth eats a garment. [Rarely used except in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.] Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.

stars; a multitude of cares. It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they uttery neglect method in their harangues. I. Watts. A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. Longfellow.

ty or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.

Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.

An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.

A neglect or refusal to accept.

Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

Neglect or failure of communion.

Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

Neglecting or refusing to comply.

Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.