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n.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
n. sing. & pl.
A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
n.
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
v. t.
To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
n.
The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.
n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
n.
Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
a.
Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
n.
A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
n.
The quality or state of being silly.
adv.
In a silly manner; foolishly.
n.
A sill.
a.
Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.
n.
A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
a.
Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
n.
Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
v. t.
An old story; a silly tale.
a.
Silly.
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