Definition of idle

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Idle (v. i.) To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business..

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Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar..
Player :: Player (n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler..
Leisurable :: Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Babble :: Babble (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
Bridle :: Bridle (n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc..
Fume :: Fume (n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination..
Chatterer :: Chatterer (n.) A prater; an idle talker.
Indolent :: Indolent (a.) Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man..
Lounge :: Lounge (n.) An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
Fiddle :: Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Faineant :: Faineant (n.) A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
Vagabondize :: Vagabondize (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
Sluggard :: Sluggard (n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone..
Vagrant :: Vagrant (n.) One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Cackle :: Cackle (n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.
Idleness :: Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
Vagabondage :: Vagabondage (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Trapes :: Trapes (v. i.) To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
Ungovernable :: Ungovernable (a.) Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions..
Chak :: Chak (v. i.) To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle..
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