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ir strength. Locke. A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream. L'Estrange.

ful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative. L'Estrange.

To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

ll from rectitude. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. L'Estrange.

to be useful. [Obs.] "Our passions . . . subminister to the best and worst purposes." L'EStrange.

table. If happinessbe a substantial good. Denham. The substantial ornaments of virtue. L'Estrange.

The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.

with up. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable. L'Estrange. He sums their virtues in himself alone. Dryden.

heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of his plumes. L'Estrange.

The state of being sure; certainty; security. Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. Gen. xv. 13. For the more surety they looked round about. Sir P. Sidney.

ct or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment. Pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house. Shak.

ck; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.

of swooping. The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. L'Estrange.

n speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.

answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. One of his relations took him up roundly. L'Estrange.

a sailor; a seaman; a tar. To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.

A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. L'Estrange.

sion and pain; easily pained. Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces. L'Estrange.

r is not aware of what is done, and then in other cases it may fall out to be own act. L'Estrange. By then. (a) By that time. (b) By the time that. [Obs.] But that opinion, I trust, by then this following argument hath been well read, will be left for one of the mysteries of an indulgent Antichrist. Milton. Now and the…

ick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.] L'Estrange.