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A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened. Mrs. J. H. Ewing.

Foolish; silly; weak in intellect. Hudibras.

from Slub. Slubbing billy, or Slubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed.

A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [Obs.] Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. Shak.

A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond. [Colloq.] There is no doubt, whatever, that I was a lackadaisical young spooney. Dickens.

A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl. [Prov. Eng.]

Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct. Burke.

Silly talk; babbling.

Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.

Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.

Foolish; silly. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

A clown; a country bumpkin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Country swains, and silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson.

Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton Tiglium. [Written also tilly.]

An old story; a silly tale. Shak.

Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose. [R.] Bailey.

To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly. [R.] Bp. Kennet.

Uncivilly; rudely. -- Un*man"ner*li*ness, n.