addlepated

[Eng. addle; pate.] The same as ADDLE-HEADED. "Poor alaves in metre, dull and addle - pated : Who rhyme, below even David's psalms translated." Dryden. ad'-dled, pa . par . . [ADDLE (2).] Putrescent, rotten. (Used chiefly of eggs when in a state of decay through being deprived of vitality.) "Now, if the cuckoo was obliged to sit on her own eggs, she would either have to sit on all together, and therefore leave those first laid so long that they probably would become addled."-Darwin: Journal of Voyage round the World, ch. iii.