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Webster 1913 Edition

Addle

Ad′dle

,
Noun.
[OE.
adel
, AS.
adela
, mud.]
1.
Liquid filth; mire.
[Obs.]
2.
Lees; dregs.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

Ad′dle

,
Adj.
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
Dryden.

Ad′dle

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Addled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Addling
.]
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle;
as, he
addled
his brain
.
“Their eggs were addled.”
Cowper.

Ad′dle

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[OE.
adlen
,
adilen
, to gain, acquire; prob. fr. Icel.
öðlask
to acquire property, akin to
oðal
property. Cf.
Allodial
.]
1.
To earn by labor.
[Prov. Eng.]
Forby.
2.
To thrive or grow; to ripen.
[Prov. Eng.]
Kill ivy, else tree will
addle
no more.
Tusser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Addle

AD'DLE

,
Adj.
[Heb. to fail.]
In a morbid state; putrid; applied to eggs.
Hence, barren, producing nothing.
His brains grow addle.

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