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addle (medicine)


addle


1. To earn by labour.

2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. "Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more." (Tusser)

Origin: OE. Adlen, adilen, to gain, acquire; prob. Fr. Icel. Oolask to acquire property, akin to ooal property. Cf. Allodial.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.

Source: Websters Dictionary


telegony (iou)



telegony noun. Now rare. L19.
[from TELE- + -GONY.]
Biology. The (hypothetical) influence of a previous sire seen in the progeny of a subsequent sire from the same dam.
telegonic adjective L19.