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The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow.

Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars. [R.]

m; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. [Obs.] Judg. xii. 6.

Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. L'Estrange.

It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Chaucer.

A stranger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. [Colloq.]

In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings s…

the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane. -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of…

r eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.

Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.

d vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.

h the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

od of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.