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Johnadreams :: "Johnadreams (n.) A dreamy, idle fellow..

Branks :: Branks (n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold..

Unbridle :: Unbridle (v. t.) To free from the bridle; to set loose.

Bridle Iron :: Bridle iron () A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger..

Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

Sluggard :: Sluggard (n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone..

Bridoon :: Bridoon (n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein..

Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (n.) Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.

Idler :: Idler (n.) An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.

Tidley :: Tidley (n.) The wren.

Idleness :: Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Jangler :: Jangler (n.) An idle talker; a babbler; a prater.

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.

Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..

Slowback :: Slowback (n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

Crownpiece :: Crownpiece (n.) A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle..

Truantly :: Truantly (adv.) Like a truant; in idleness.

Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Bridle :: Bridle (v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse..

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. t.) To loiter; to idle.

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