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A share; a snack. [Obs.] L'Estrange

To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, a…

One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

om the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. All nature is cured with a sop. L'Estrange.

Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange.

A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. People of a strange speech and of an hard language. Ezek. iii. 6.

n out the day in idleness. By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. L'Estrange.

is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

edged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. L'Estrange.

The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock. L'Estrange.

phrase taken from the game of chess, the chessboard being formed with squares. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

rush. In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden. L'Estrange.

Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. [Low] L'Estrange.

pocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under an affectation of simplicity and religion. L'Estrange. How much more abominable is it to make of him [Christ] and religion a stalking-horse, to get and enjoy the world! Bunyan.

A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do. L'Estrange.

Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. Shak. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. Fuller. Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

in starts distractedly. Shak. Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry. L'Estrange.

ity or state of being steady. Steadiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. L'Estrange.

what is stated. In the primitive church, such as by fear being compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel. Whitgift. Still and anon, at intervals and repeatedly; continually; ever and anon; now and then. And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and…