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A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

Wheresoever there is normal right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange. Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.

nd a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end L'Estrange.

. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. L' Estrange.

's plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures. L'Estrange.

very man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world. L'Estrange.

To walk sidewise. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L'Estrange.

To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. L'Estrange.

ns; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange.

ical sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.

ress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to schift as well as they can. L'Estrange.

r. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Estrange.

trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.

Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.] L'Estrange.

- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.

Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange.

, . . . Singe my white head! Shak. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. L'Estrange.

ter, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. Men of a less size and quality. L'Estrange. The middling or lower size of people. Swift.

o go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. Child, you must walk straight, without skewing. L'Estrange.