Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more.
Tusser.
{ Ad"dle-brain` (&?;), Ad"dle-head` (&?;), Ad"dle- pate (&?;), } n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]
{ Ad"dle-brained` (&?;), Ad"dle-head`ed (&?;), Ad"dle-pa`ted (&?;), } a. Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley.
Dull and addle-pated.
Dryden.
Ad"dle-pa`ted*ness (&?;), n. Stupidity.
Ad"dlings (&?;), n. pl. [See Addle, to earn.] Earnings. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Ad*doom" (&?;), v. t. [Pref. a- + doom.] To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.
Ad*dorsed" (&?;), a. [L. ad + dorsum, back: cf. F. adossé.] (Her.) Set or turned back to back.
Ad*dress" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addressed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Addressing.] [OE. adressen to raise erect, adorn, OF. adrecier, to straighten, address, F. adresser, fr. à (L. ad) + OF. drecier, F. dresser, to straighten, arrange. See Dress, v.] 1. To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer.
And this good knight his way with me addrest.
Spenser.