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erstanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak.

In a foolish manner.

The quality of being foolish.

Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

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

e was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

sses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, to do or say something very foolish or absurd.

Dazed; foolish; infatuated. [Obs.] Willie, I ween thou be assot. Spenser.

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.

To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. "Some befooling drug." G. Eliot.

To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. G. Eliot.

or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. Shak.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

"Death's heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

rind small or fine. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Prov. xxvii. 22.

Officious; meddling; foolish active. On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Shak.

In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.

A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. Burke.

A young, foolish fellow. Shak.

ate. [Archaic] Feed me with food convenient for me. Prov. xxx. 8. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. Eph. v. 4.