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The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange.

The orange filefish. See Filefish.

A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.

wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.

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.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

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

, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. Milton.…

The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow.

Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars. [R.]

m; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. [Obs.] Judg. xii. 6.

Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. L'Estrange.

It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Chaucer.

A stranger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.