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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.

The young of an animal. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

onze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

us manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

Importunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.

Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

ret purpose; selfish advantage. [Written also bye-end.] "Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.

erial, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge.

ance; a circumstance, or all the circumstamces; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10. And when a lady's in the case. You know al…

ually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --…

for their relief; alms; any act of kindness. She did ill then to refuse her a charity. L'Estrange.