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A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.

rst found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.

To arrange beforehand.

To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.

The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.] Shak.

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: --

Superior to the angels in nature or rank. [R.] Milman.

To estrange; to withdraw. [Obs.]

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

o occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

ect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

ate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

rding, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.