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re) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.

A siege or beleaguering. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

A besieger. [R.] J. Webster.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.

ictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Shak. And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. Wyclif. The different plague of each calamity. Shak.

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

Free from plagues or the plague.

One who plagues or annoys.

d one half pounds sterling. [Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.] Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. Marlowe.

A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in

nt reflections. Called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. The spotted squeteague (C. nebulosus) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called also spotted weakfish, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon.

The squeteague.

An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt. Johnson.

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

A truce. [Obs.] Spenser.

perplexity; trouble; distress. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot.

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats.

In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.

The quality or state of being vague.