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ve not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

ice. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.

vility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger. To pay attention to, To pay one's attentions to, to be courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to court.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

n omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

confession to the priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

Perversely; in the wrong way. L'Estrange.

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

tional prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

ise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

tive force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. Balance the good and evil of things. L'Estrange.

ere a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. L'Estrange.

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.

a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. Totten.

The refrain of a song. To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. L'Estrange.

Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." L'Estrange.

by sifting or bolting; -- with out. Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L'Estrange.

first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.