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Corruption; cause of corruption. [Archaic] Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. Shak.

secretly, as a country; -- usually with out. Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof. Num. xxi. 32.

Stanza. [Obs.] Sackville.

culiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.

. or R.] Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville.

To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] Glanvill.

e. Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. I was no stranger to the original. Dryden.

ginally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

under severe agonies of mind. Atterbury. This is the utmost stretch that nature can. Granville.

Planned with study; deliberate; studied. For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented Rambler.

One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun"dism (#),…

ess; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address. Glanvill.

d making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanvill.

antial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.

inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.

Dryden. The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. Glanvill.

Concurrence. [R.] Glanvill.

e no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.

of studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples." Mark ix. 31. The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith.

a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.