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addled (encz) | addled,popletený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Addled (gcide) | Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Addling.]
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his
brain. "Their eggs were addled." --Cowper.
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addled (wn) | addled
adj 1: (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
2: confused and vague; used especially of thinking;
"muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly
thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled,
muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed,
wooly-minded] |
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paddled (encz) | paddled, |
raddled (encz) | raddled, adj: |
saddled (encz) | saddled,osedlaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
saddled with (encz) | saddled with, |
saddled-shaped false morel (encz) | saddled-shaped false morel, n: |
straddled (encz) | straddled,rozkročený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unsaddled (encz) | unsaddled, |
Addled (gcide) | Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Addling.]
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his
brain. "Their eggs were addled." --Cowper.
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Daddled (gcide) | Daddle \Dad"dle\ (d[a^]d"d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Daddled, p.
pr. & vb. n. Daddling.] [Prob. freq. of dade.]
To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man;
hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
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Paddled (gcide) | Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paddling]
1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [Obsolescent]
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To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. --Shak.
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2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
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3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
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4. To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; -- usually
as a disciplinary punishment of children.
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5. To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a
paddle.
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Saddled (gcide) | Saddle \Sad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Saddling.] [AS. sadelian.]
1. To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.
"saddle my horse." --Shak.
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Abraham rose up early, . . . and saddled his ass.
--Gen. xxii.
3.
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2. Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to
encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges
and highways.
[1913 Webster]Saddled \Sad"dled\, a. (Zool.)
Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle;
saddle-backed.
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Skedaddled (gcide) | Skedaddle \Ske*dad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skedaddled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Skedaddling.] [Of uncertain etymology.]
To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to
run away. [Slang, U. S.]
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Straddled (gcide) | Straddle \Strad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straddled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Straddling.] [Freq. from the root of stride.]
1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs
far apart.
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2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of
a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
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Swaddled (gcide) | Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swaddling.]
1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with
clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to
swaddle a baby.
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They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces
of linen. --Addison.
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2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
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Waddled (gcide) | Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waddling.] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w[ae]dlian to beg, from
wadan to go. See Wade.]
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to
the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily
and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child
waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. --Shak.
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She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.
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raddled (wn) | raddled
adj 1: used until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and
raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles"
[syn: raddled, worn-out]
2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;
"looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face
was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but
still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his
handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn,
drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] |
saddled (wn) | saddled
adj 1: having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal;
"saddled and spurred and ready to ride" [ant:
unsaddled]
2: subject to an imposed burden; "left me saddled with the
bill"; "found himself saddled with more responsibility than
power" |
saddled-shaped false morel (wn) | saddled-shaped false morel
n 1: a poisonous fungus; saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown
fertile part is relatively even [syn: Gyromitra infula,
saddled-shaped false morel] |
unsaddled (wn) | unsaddled
adj 1: with no saddle [ant: saddled] |
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