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To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." Cowper.

A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

Stupidity.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

To bestride.

See Lumpfish. [Scot.]

To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

To trifle; to toy. -- v. t.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

See under 2d Pack.

To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

One who, or that which, paddles.

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge. Todd.

of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.

Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.

Shaped like a saddle. Specifically: