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amily Ciconidæ, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The bl…

ar, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. I was no stranger to the original. Dryden.

The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

iousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.

Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South.

Any worldly thing. [Obs.]

Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive. Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Shak.

eague. -- Sun wheel. (Mach.) See Sun and planet wheels, above. -- Under the sun, in the world; on earth. "There is no new thing under the sun." Eccl. i. 9.

old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. Coleridge.

Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary. The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope.

Being above the world; -- opposed to inframundane. Cudworth.

Being above the world, or secular things. Bp. Hall.

Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.

pport. No comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him under the evils in this world. Tillotson.

is reason swayed. Shak. She could not sway her house. Shak. This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue. Dryden.

born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptu…

gs regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. "The great system of the world." Boyle.

Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle.