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o avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron.

all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2.

Considerable in number or quality. "Bore us some leagues to sea." Shak. On its outer point, some miles away. The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry. Longfellow.

Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to 1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139.

Hence, a vague rumor or flying report. [Scot.]

To search narrowly; to scrutinize. It is my nature's plague To spy into abuses. Shak.

The squeteague; -- called also squit.

Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

er, Crossaster, and allied genera, having numerous rays. -- Sun trout (Zoöl.), the squeteague. -- Sun wheel. (Mach.) See Sun and planet wheels, above. -- Under the sun, in the world; on earth. "There is no new thing under the sun." Eccl. i. 9.

Free from danger; safe; secure. Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that we are sure enough. Shak. -- To be sure, or Be sure, certainly; without doubt; as, Shall you do To be sure I shall. -- To make sure. (a) To make certain; to secure so that there can be no failure of the purpose or object.…

To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to kno…

do their work in the days of peace . . . and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague. Jer. Taylor.

A political union, confederation, or league. [R.] Burke.

cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.

An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.

at thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.

, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. [Obs.] Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl.

Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.