idleness
         n 1: having no employment [syn: {idleness}, {idling}, {loafing}]
         2: the quality of lacking substance or value; "the
            groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized" [syn:
            {groundlessness}, {idleness}]
         3: the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn:
            {faineance}, {idleness}]

English Dictionary: Italian woodbine	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
idling n having no employment Synonym(s): idleness, idling, loafing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Italian adj of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language; "Italian cooking" n a native or inhabitant of Italy the Romance language spoken in Italy
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Italian bee n yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits
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Italian bread n unsweetened yeast-raised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends
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Italian capital n capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire Synonym(s): Rome, Roma, Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italy
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Italian clover n southern European annual with spiky heads of crimson flower; extensively cultivated in United States for forage Synonym(s): crimson clover, Italian clover, Trifolium incarnatum
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Italian cypress n tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches Synonym(s): Italian cypress, Mediterranean cypress, Cupressus sempervirens
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Italian dressing n a vinaigrette with garlic and herbs: oregano and basil and dill
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Italian greyhound n a toy dog developed from the greyhound
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Italian honeysuckle n deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls Synonym(s): Italian honeysuckle, Italian woodbine, Lonicera caprifolium
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Italian lira n formerly the basic unit of money in Italy; equal to 100 centesimi Synonym(s): lira, Italian lira
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Italian millet n coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States Synonym(s): foxtail millet, Italian millet, Hungarian grass, Setaria italica
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Italian monetary unit n monetary unit in Italy
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Italian parsley n a variety of parsley having flat leaves [syn: {Italian parsley}, flat-leaf parsley, Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum]
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Italian Peninsula n a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea
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Italian region n Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes
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Italian Renaissance n the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance
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Italian Republic n a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD Synonym(s): Italy, Italian Republic, Italia
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Italian rice n rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese Synonym(s): risotto, Italian rice
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Italian rye n European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure Synonym(s): Italian ryegrass, Italian rye, Lolium multiflorum
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Italian ryegrass n European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure Synonym(s): Italian ryegrass, Italian rye, Lolium multiflorum
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Italian sandwich n a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States Synonym(s): bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Italian sonnet n a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd Synonym(s): Petrarchan sonnet, Italian sonnet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Italian vegetable marrow n squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow Synonym(s): cocozelle, Italian vegetable marrow
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Italian vermouth n sweet dark amber variety [syn: sweet vermouth, {Italian vermouth}]
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Italian woodbine n deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls Synonym(s): Italian honeysuckle, Italian woodbine, Lonicera caprifolium
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Italian-speaking adj able to communicate in Italian
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Idalian \I*da"li*an\, a.       Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to       Venus, to whom it was sacred. [bd]Idalian Aphrodit[82].[b8]       --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Idleness \I"dle*ness\, n. [AS. [c6]delnes.]       The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses       of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality;       inactivity; laziness.          Syn: Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Idle \I"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Idled}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Idling}.]       To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed       in business. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf.       {Italic}.]       Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.          {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; --             called also {farmer's satin}.          {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills.          {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italian \I*tal"ian\, n.       1. A native or inhabitant of Italy.          2. The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ray grass \Ray" grass`\, [Etymol. of ray is uncertain.] (Bot.)       A perennial European grass ({Lolium perenne}); -- called also       {rye grass}, and {red darnel}. See {Darnel}, and {Grass}.          {Italian} {ray, [or] rye}, {grass}. See {Darnel}, and             {Grass}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf.       {Italic}.]       Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.          {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; --             called also {farmer's satin}.          {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills.          {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf.       {Italic}.]       Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.          {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; --             called also {farmer's satin}.          {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills.          {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fluting \Flut"ing\, n.       Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes       collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the       fluting of a lady's ruffle.          {Fluting iron}, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called             also {Italian iron}, or {gaufering iron}. --Knight.          {Fluting lathe}, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on             balusters, table legs, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italian \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf.       {Italic}.]       Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.          {Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; --             called also {farmer's satin}.          {Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills.          {Italian juice}, Calabrian liquorice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the       goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of       Mercury by Jupiter.]       1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.             --Chaucer.          2. The early part or springtime of life.                         His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.          3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from             their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.                         The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.                         Plumes that micked the may.               --Tennyson.          4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson.          {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S.             hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers             along the slender branches.          {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant             ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself             (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves,             and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The             root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.                      {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous             species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the             winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and             allied genera. Called also {June beetle}.          {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic             parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a             garland, and by dancing about a May pole.          {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which             magical properties were attributed.          {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its             blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary.          {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied             genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many             species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under             {Ephemeral}.          {May game}, any May-day sport.          {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.          {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria             majalis}).          {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary.          {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the             sports of May Day.          {May thorn}, the hawthorn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note:          {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}.          {Egyptian [or] East Indian},          {millet} is {Penicillaria spicata}.          {Indian millet} is {Sorghum vulgare}. (See under {Indian}.)                      {Italian millet} is {Setaria Italica}, a coarse, rank-growing             annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and             bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also {Hungarian grass}.                      {Texas millet} is {Panicum Texanum}.          {Wild millet}, or          {Millet grass}, is {Milium effusum}, a tail grass growing in             woods.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rye \Rye\, n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw.       r[86]g, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken,       roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr. 'o`ryza       rice. Cf. {Rice}.]       1. (Bot.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass ({Secale             cereale}), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant             itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff             used by man.          2. A disease in a hawk. --Ainsworth.          {Rye grass}, {Italian rye grass}, (Bot.) See under {Grass}.             See also {Ray grass}, and {Darnel}.          {Wild rye} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Elymus}, tall             grasses with much the appearance of rye.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italianate \I*tal"ian*ate\, v. t. [Cf. It. italianare.]       To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to       Italianize. [R.] --Ascham.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italianate \I*tal"ian*ate\, a.       Italianized; Italianated. [bd]Apish, childish, and       Italianate.[b8] --Marlowe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italianism \I*tal"ian*ism\, n.       1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an             Italicism.          2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Italianized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Italianizing}.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It.       italianizzare.]       1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave.          2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. [bd]An             Englishman Italianized.[b8] --Lowell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Italianized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Italianizing}.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It.       italianizzare.]       1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave.          2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. [bd]An             Englishman Italianized.[b8] --Lowell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Italianized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Italianizing}.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It.       italianizzare.]       1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave.          2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. [bd]An             Englishman Italianized.[b8] --Lowell.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Italian band       the name of the Roman cohort to which Cornelius belonged (Acts       10:1), so called probably because it consisted of men recruited       in Italy.