idlesse

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaɪdləs/

Noun

idlesse (uncountable)

(obsolete) idleness
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London:William Ponsonbie, Book 6, Canto 2, p. 378,
  All which my daies I haue not lewdly spent,
  
  Nor spilt the blossome of my tender yeares
  
  In ydlesse.
- 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Earth and her Praisers” in The Seraphim, and Other Poems, London: Saunders & Otley, p. 242,
  Next a lover, with a dream
  
  ’Neath his waking eyelids hidden;
  
  And a frequent sigh unbidden'
  
  And an idlesse all the day
  
  Beside a wandering stream;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for idlesse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

dieless, diesels, sediles, seidels

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