a. Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant. [ 1913 Webster ]
O, negligent and heedless discipline! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The heedless lover does not know
Whose eyes they are that wound him so. Waller.
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v. t.
The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To flatter; to coax; to cajole. [ 1913 Webster ]