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g bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

r to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.

a young man void of understanding. Prov. vii. 7. Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. Tennyson.

rson by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." Tennyson. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. Sir P. Sidney.

ul and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits. Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance. Harte.

A form of Enough. [Archaic] Shak.

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

ivate and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

At the very time; in the very case. I knew they were had enough to please, even when I wrote them. Dryden.

Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.

manzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.

h many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1.

hers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. L'Estrange.

The aspect or countenance; assurance. To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king. Shak.

forsooth. [Obs.] The captain of the "Charles" had forsoothed her, though he knew her well enough and she him. Pepys.

of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

out. How goes the night, boy Shak. I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. I Watts.