Idle

ī′dl, adj. vain: trifling: unemployed: averse to labour: not occupied: usele : unimportant: unedifying.— v.t. to spend in idlene .— v.i. to be idle or unoccupied.— adj. I′dle-head′ed , foolish.— ns. I′dlehood , I′dlene ; I′dler ; Id′le e , idlene ; I′dle-wheel , a wheel placed between two others simply for transferring the motion from one to the other without changing the direction.— n.pl. I′dle-worms , once jocularly supposed to be bred in the fingers of lazy maid-servants.— adv. I′dly . [A.S. idel ; Dut. ijdel , Ger. eitel .]