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Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak.

In a careless manner.

The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

A stroke; a blow. He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. Dryden.

A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

of form. See Cratch, Cratch cradle. -- To let the cat out of the bag, to tell a secret, carelessly or willfully. [Colloq.] -- Bush cat, the serval. See Serval.

To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak.

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

nvolving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. Addison.

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.

To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as…