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Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. L'Estrange. Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.

verb. [Archaic or Colloq.] He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap. L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.

A toll duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. Cowell.

A bufoon. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

pent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned. L'Estrange.

A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

heresoever there is normal right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange. Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.

d a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end L'Estrange.

Rarely known; unusual; strange. [Obs.] [She] wondered much at his so selcouth case. Spenser.

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. L' Estrange.

s plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures. L'Estrange.

ery man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world. L'Estrange.

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] Gower. I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.

To walk sidewise. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

heat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L'Estrange.

bute in portions; to divide. Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger. Swift.

To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. L'Estrange.

s; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange.

cal sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.

ess will look to themselves, and leave their companions to schift as well as they can. L'Estrange.