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Headlong; without restraint. [Obs.] L'Estrange. To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on onward. (c) To push on in an enterprise. [Colloq] -- To get ahead of. (a) To get in advance of.

n resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

g set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

acticing or siding with both parties. All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange.

ve not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

ice. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.

vility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger. To pay attention to, To pay one's attentions to, to be courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to court.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

n omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

confession to the priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

Perversely; in the wrong way. L'Estrange.

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

tional prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

ise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

tive force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. Balance the good and evil of things. L'Estrange.