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serves to add strength, force, or efficiency. A distemper eminently armed from heaven. De Foe.

in this article of good breeding. Addison. This last article will hardly be believed. De Foe.

prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.

by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the act…

bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain. De Foe.

n the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

King. [Obs.] "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson.

To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

of. [Obs.] Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton.

o which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dryden.

Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

rrors; to act shrewdly. -- To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. -- To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. -- Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person…

Charcoal; a cinder. [Obs.] DeFoe.

te of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.