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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.

f catcher. Same as Thief taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for t…

any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

f bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle. Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck. Milton.

hed with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange.

t for see (Matt. xi. 8). Then longen folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeken strange stranders. Chaucer.

State of mind; temper; mood. The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, . . . drag the mind down . . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business. Bolingbroke. Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. W. C. Bryant.

e; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

A simpleton. L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dryden.

nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." Charles Reade. -- Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any sertularian hydroid. -- Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of ce…

Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.

ard, etc. -- Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] L'Estrange. -- Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. -- Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.

ate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him. L'Estrange.