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to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him.

f being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor. Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity. Addison.

One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.

young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]

One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree of this genus (C. Siliquastrum). C. Canadensis and C. occidentalis are the American species, and are called also redbud.

, to keep store. Like a pedant that keeps a school. Shak. Every one of them kept house by himself. Hayward.

om. Ps. cxiv. 13. When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself. 2 Chron. xxi. 4.

t his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself. Shak.

hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. Spenser.

inhabitants of a nation or people. These answers, in the silent night received, The kind himself divulged, the land believed. Dryden.

Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.

One who applies himself to laryngology.

n object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

- To lay one's self out, to strive earnestly. No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself for the good of his country. Smalridge. -- To lay one's self open to, to expose one's self to, as to an accusation. -- To lay open, to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal. -- To lay over, to spread over; to cover. --…

rt, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. He leaned not on his fathers but himself. Tennyson.

y, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

-- White lie, a euphemism for such lies as one finds it convenient to tell, and excuses himself for telling.

authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.

's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain smaller beasts, and appropriating to himself all the prey.