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ir idols. Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Acts xxvi. 11.

o a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange.

- To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. -- To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. -- To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. -- To make sure. See under Sure. -…

To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.] That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie. Gower. To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.

In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.

The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.

ss in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. L'Estrange.

ty; portion; space; -- often indefinite. Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles. L' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. Mi lton.

Nauseous. [Obs.] L' Estrange.

he traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal. What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee Shak.

nthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

ot a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

ion; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

Marvelous; strange. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

n in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak.

bility. It is morally impossible for an hypocrite to keep himself long upon his guard. L'Estrange.

dditional or greater amount. They that would have more and more can never have enough. L'Estrange. O! That pang where more than madness lies. Byron. Any more. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it.…