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Traditional English :: silly
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silly.html - adj. & n. --adj. (sillier, silliest)
1 lacking sense; foolish, imprudent, unwise.
2 weak-minded.
3 Cricket (of a fielder or position) very close to the batsman (silly mid-off).
4 archaic innocent, simple, helpless. --n. (pl. -ies) colloq. a foolish person. silly billy colloq. a foolish person. the silly season high summer as the season when newspapers often publish trivial material for lack of important news. sillily adv. silliness n. [later form of ME sely (dial. seely) happy, repr. OE s lig (recorded in unsólig unhappy) f. Gmc] |
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Traditional English :: sill
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silly.html - n. (also cill) 1 a shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window or doorway. 2 a horizontal timber at the bottom of a dock or lock entrance, against which the gates close. 3 Geol. a tabular sheet of igneous rock intruded between other rocks and parallel with their planar structure. [OE syll, sylle] |
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Traditional English :: sillabub
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silly.html - var. of SYLLABUB. |
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Traditional English :: sillimanite
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silly.html - n.
an aluminium silicate occurring in orthorhombic crystals or fibrous masses. [B. Silliman, Amer. chemist d. 1864] |
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Traditional English :: silly
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silly.html - adj. & n. --adj. (sillier, silliest)
1 lacking sense; foolish, imprudent, unwise.
2 weak-minded.
3 Cricket (of a fielder or position) very close to the batsman (silly mid-off).
4 archaic innocent, simple, helpless. --n. (pl. -ies) colloq. a foolish person. silly billy colloq. a foolish person. the silly season high summer as the season when newspapers often publish trivial material for lack of important news. sillily adv. silliness n. [later form of ME sely (dial. seely) happy, repr. OE s lig (recorded in unsólig unhappy) f. Gmc] |
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English Idioms :: silence gives consent
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silly.html - If you say nothing or do not say no to something, it means that you agree. - A proverb. * /Don't be afraid to say, if you don't like something. Silence gives consent./ |
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