Search the Dictionary

Admission into service; service. Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment. Shak.

erson appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.

A stranger. [Obs.] Spenser.

nother in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.

The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.

One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. Shak.

A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

lent or quiet; make no noise. Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. Keble. But all these strangers' presence every one did hush. Spenser.

ncies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper.

formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

resentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

elf in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.

The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2 Cor. v. 21. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton.…

from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.