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rent. With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another. L'Estrange. Could they have made this slander passable. Collier.

Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." Shak.

hy borders. Num. xxi. 22. Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. L'Estrange.

re only merit constant pay receives. Pope. There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. L'Estrange. Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions. -- Half pay. See under Half. -- Pay day, the day…

Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.

Foreignness; strangeness. [Obs.] "Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect." Johnson.

xistence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. Pope. She was a phantom of delight. Wordsworth. Phantom ship. See Flying Dutchman, under Flying. -- Phantom tumor (Med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, a…

That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

To wink; to blink. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.

g, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. Milton. That he would please 8give me my liberty. Swift.

ty. See Majority. Take the plurality of the world, and they are neither wise nor good. L'Estrange.

ould rather burst atwo than plye. Chaucer. The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. L'Estrange.

commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

reschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

shall be possessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. Milton.

ely expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run. Sir P. Sidney. In most strange postures We have seen him set himself. Shak. The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action. Dryden.

the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. L'Estrange.

preferred the bowl. Pope. Presently prefer his suit to Cæsar. Shak. Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high. Byron.