adv. Unrestrainedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Abjectly; downcastly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an abashed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an absurd manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a accepted manner; admittedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Sourly; tartly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acid manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. adel, AS. adela, mud. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Liquid filth; mire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lees; dregs. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Dull-witted; stupid. “The addle-brained Oberstein.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dull and addle-pated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Stupidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Addle, to earn. ] Earnings. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adlegatio, allegatio, a sending away; fr. adlegare, allegare, to send away with a commission; ad in addition + legare to send as ambassador. Cf. Allegation. ] A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Allocution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. “Advisedly undertaken.” Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lovingly; with tender care. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With fright. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Shamelessly. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an aged person. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an agitated manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Helpless; without aid. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an alarmed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With animation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By application. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Bashfully. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By assumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Certainly; indubitably. “The siege assuredly I'll raise.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an astonished manner. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + straddle. ] In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Perversely; ill. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And does he think so backwardly of me? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very greatly, with words signifying to want or need. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bandelette, dim. of bande. See Band, n., and cf. Bendlet. ] (Arch.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring, and usually at the top of the column; an annulet. Gwilt.
Syn. -- annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Ir. bannlamh cubit, fr. bann a measure + lamh hand, arm. ] An Irish measure of two feet in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The leader of a dance band. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Bandelet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inferior bard. J. Cunningham. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Openly; shamelessly. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. [ Obs. ] -- adv. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [ Obs. ] Shak. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]