Ad"dle (#), n. [OE. adel, AS. adela, mud.]
1.
Liquid filth; mire.
[Obs.]
2.
Lees; dregs.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
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Ad"dle, a.
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
Dryden.
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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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Ad"dle, v. t. & i. [OE. adlen, adilen, to gain, acquire; prob. fr. Icel. o[eth]lask to acquire property, akin to o[eth]al property. Cf. Allodial.]
1.
To earn by labor.
[Prov. Eng.]
Forby.
2.
To thrive or grow; to ripen.
[Prov. Eng.]
Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more.
Tusser.
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