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balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. Tate.

A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. [Colloq.] Burton.

Thoughtless; unsteady.

Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. [R.] Shak.

Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.

s borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown. Swift.

e or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.

Giddy; rash. Milton.

Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton.

stant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven fro…

Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

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

In a giddy manner.

The quality or state of being giddy.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.

ribed by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]

Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.