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One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.

en to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. [Obs.]

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor. Robynson (More's Utopia).

- Guide pulley (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler. Knight. -- Guide rail (Railroads), an additional rail, between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.

Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

An idler; a vagabond. Wharton.

The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

One who loiters; an idler.

One who lounges; ar idler.

One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc. [Obs.] Shak.

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak.

siastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies. They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. Burke.

n is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. Idler.

lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time. Idler.

Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor. E. Eggleston. The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne