About half of them at the factories get addled brains if they stay long.

He had not "addled" a penny for twelve months before he died.

The old woman said that the husband was "a grinder in a card-room when they geet wed, an' he addled about 8s.

Instantly, as when a reagent is injected into a retort of chemicals and a precipitate is formed leaving the previously cloudy liquid like crystal, Tutt's addled brain cleared.

There stood the Kaatskill Mountainsthere ran the silver Hudson at a distancethere was every hill and dale precisely as it had always beenRip was sorely perplexed"That flagon last night," thought he, "has addled my poor head sadly!

Adj. unproductive, acarpous^, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific^, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund^; sine prole; fallow; teemless^, issueless^, fruitless; unprofitable &c (useless) 645; null and void, of no effect.

that revived again ten days after he was killed in a battle, and told strange wonders, like those tales Ulysses related to Alcinous in Homer, or Lucian's vera historia itself) was still after much solitariness, fasting, or long sickness, when their brains were addled, and their bellies as empty of meat as their heads of wit.

And then the exemplum sine exemplo of a volume of personalities, and contemporaneities, without a single line that could inflict the infinitesimal of an unpleasance on any man in his senses: saving and except perhaps in the envy-addled brain of the despiser of your Lays.

I sat in the dust and endeavoured to make my addled brains direct me as to the best course to pursue.

To keep up the figure, I am thankful there are any left not addled.

I must go and con over my oration, at least if thy prophesying has not altogether addled my thoughts.

Well, my old brain got so addled watchin' Sonny work it thet

When a man who has been bred to free thought and free speech suddenly finds himself stepping about, like a dancer amidst his eggs, among the old addled majority-votes which he must not tread upon, he is a spectacle for men and angels.

That's just old Saunders' addled wits.

I asked for instances beyond the domain of the addled brains of old women, or the excited fancies of young; and Graeme looked at me inten

I wint on, on, on, out ov one room an' into another, till my head was fairly addled, an' I thought I'd never come to the ind.

He must be a poor specimen of a human being who cannot fairly earn his anna or two annas a day, and our brains must be poor addled affairs, if in this great vast world of ours we cannot find that amount of work for him to do.

His addled wits presently hit upon a wonderful scheme by which he could both honour and serve his sovereign: He would make the King a hat to wear at his wedding!"

"I don't know, sir," she answered slowly; "I daresay my fancies are very foolish; they may have come, perhaps, out of thinking about this so much, till my brain has got addled, as one may say.

"Was the egg addled?"

Had I written sooner, I should have told your lordship, too, of the King of Prussia's triumphsbut they are addled too!

Brown was killed, as also was the Prussian Marshal, Schwerin; indeed, the King lost eighteen thousand mennearly as many as had fallen on the side of the enemy; and the Austrian disaster was more than retrieved by the great victory of Kolin, gained by Marshal Daun, June 18th, to which Walpole probably alludes when he says Frederic's "triumphs are addled."] Are your charming lawns burnt up like our humble hills?

I had forgot, there is a Miss Wynne coming forth, that is to be handsomer than my Lady Coventry; but I have known one threatened with such every summer for these seven years, and they are always addled by winter!

I flatter myself I am not infirm yet; and, if you call a well-preserved, middle-aged, English woman, like me, old, your brains must be addled.

I had brought a couple of bottles of champagne with me and, what with the unaccustomed drink and the ogling and love-making to which I treated her, a hundred kilos of foolish womanhood was soon hopelessly addled and incapable.