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Definition of Addles
1. addle [v] - See also: addle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Addles
Literary usage of Addles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Ex. 'That crop addles.' Also see Tusser. (2) To earn, to profit gradually. Ex.
' I have at last addled up a little money.' (3) Cropping, lopping, or pruning ..."
2. Traces of History in the Names of Places: With a Vocabulary of the Roots Out by Flavell Edmunds (1872)
"the town of the descendants of a noble, probably such as bore no title, being
younger sons and their posterity ; addles-trop (Glouc. ..."
3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"... by the doubling or multiplication of others,—variations which we know to be
within the limits of possibility. In the l'addles of the gigantic extinct ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (1879)
"Ae catastrophe, and waited for their dismembered addles to he patched up and put
on by the noisy ..."
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