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[ Mir. for Mags., p. 418. giddily (gid'i-li), adv. [ How giddily he [Fashion] turns about all the hot bloods, between fourteen and five-and-thirty! Shak ., Much Ado, iii. 3. IMG:content-2280.png:[blocks in formation] gift dizzy; reeling: as, to be giddy from fever or drunkenne , or in looking down from a great height. I grow giddy while I gaze. Congreve , Paraphrase upon Horace, I. xix. 1. His voice fell Like music which makes giddy the dim brain. Shelley, Pro me the us Unbound, ii. 1. 4. Adapted to cause or to suggest giddine ; of a dizzy or dizzying nature; acting or causing to act giddily. As we pac'd along Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. Shak., Rich. III., i. 4. The wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill. Pope, R. of the L., ii. 134. =Syn. 1 and 2. Carele , reckle , headlong, flighty, harebrained, light-headed. giddy (gid'i), v.; pret. and pp. giddied, ppr. gid dying. [ He is a quiet and peaceable man, who is not moved when all things else are; not shaken with fear, not giddied with suspicion. Farindon , Sermons (1657), p. 423. II. in trans. To turn quickly; reel. Had not by chance a sodaine North wind fetcht, With an extreme sea, quite about againe, Our whole endeuours; and our course const raine To giddie round. Chapman , Ody ey, ix. My head swims, my brain giddies, I am getting old, S. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. Margaret. giddy-head (gid'i-hed), n. A giddy, frivolous person; one without serious thought or sound judgment. A company of giddy - heads will take upon them to divine how many shall be saved, and who damned in a parish; where they shall sit in heaven; interpret apocalypses; and precisely set down when the world shall come to an end, what year, what month, what day. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 677. giddy-headed (gid'i-hed"ed), a. Having a giddy head; frivolous; volatile; incautious. giddy-paced (gid'i-pāst), a. Having a giddy pace; moving irregularly; reeling; flighty. Methought it did relieve my pa ion much: More than light airs and recollected terms, Of these most brisk and giddy - paced times. Shak ., T. N., ii. 4. ne . Fear of your unbelief, and the time's giddine , Made me I durst not then go farther. Fletcher ( and another ?), Prophete , i. 1. The Popish Plot began now sensibly to dwindle, thro' the folly, knavery, impudence, and giddine of Oates. Evelyn, Diary, June 18, 1683. 2. The state or condition of being giddy or dizzy; a swimming of the head; dizzine ;