Addle, in a morbid state; originally applied to eggs, and then to a weak brain: “if you love an a. egg as well as you love an idle head,” Troil. I, 2, 145. “thy head hath been beaten as a. as an egg,” Rom. III, 1, 26.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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