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To act foolishly. [Obs.] He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer.

Stupid; foolish. [Obs.] Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser.

Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.

believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon.

A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.

To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. Give the dry fool drink. Shak

To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. Shak.

with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak.

th confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. Foolishly elated by spiritual pride. Warburton. You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]

Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. Would make me an errant fool. B. Jonson.

ved in place of the thing as, to exchange a palace for cell. And death for life exchanged foolishly. Spenser. To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another. Shak.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

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

Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

r origin. -- First or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end. And all are fools and lovers first or last. Dryden.

han four, and less than six; five units or objects. Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Matt. xxv. 2.

Foolishly. [Obs.] Chaucer.