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Delirious; infatuated. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

want of foresight or thrift. The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me inhuman. L'Estrange.

Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.

uent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.

The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.

atitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper.

Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. [Obs.] If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent. Milton.

Acts i. 19. Simonides was an excellent poet, insomuch that he made his fortune by it. L'Estrange.

ically; really; virtually; essentially. "He was miserable to all intents and purpose." L'Estrange.

ext, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think…

formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

resentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

elf in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.

The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

ung woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

Unchaste; -- applied to a woman. L'Estrange.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. L'Estrange.

eive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries Shak.