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A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.

uainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, 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.…

Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.] There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.

hrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.

To make smooth by rubbing. Longfellow.

yle, in sense sublime. Prior. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

ining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.

Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease." Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.

A sour, morose fellow. [Obs.] Camden.

the conquerors. Sir J. Denham. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. Longfellow.

pering; a whisper; a murmur. De Quincey. The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches. Longfellow.

Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. Longfellow.

ov. Eng. or Archaic] Shak. Dryden. The landlord stirred As one awaking from a swound. Longfellow.

ected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy. Milton.