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A foreigner; an outlander. [South Africa]

One who resides beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps; a foreigner.

Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.

Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved. [Scot.]

Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.

To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.

r practice of traveling. [Obs.] Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. Bacon.

The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Chinese government.

oduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived its name from the German term wälsch foreign. -- Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. & Jocular] J. Fletcher. -- Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.

A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc. [R.] Saintsbury.

ant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States. From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows. Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765).