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The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden.

Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.] Shak.

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: --

ed how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner. Bacon.

ver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

circuit, which consists of two or more fu, or territorial departments; --called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.

To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

t the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance. -- Throm*bot"ic, a.

To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter. A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. I. Watts.

To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged…

A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Foreign. [Obs.] Holinshed.

tate to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery. The treason of the murthering in the bed. Chaucer.

osing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

s, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen.

itle by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.