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rmal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

sentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

f in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.

The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo. [Written also, less properly, isatine.]

tions by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but which a different structure or arrangement of the ultimate parts; as, ethyl alcohol and methyl ether are isomeric (metameric) with each other in this sense. See Metameric.

of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.

or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the requ…

Unchaste; -- applied to a woman. L'Estrange.

Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]

A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

undant) days. The calendar is complicated by various rules providing for the harmonious arrangement of festivals, etc., so that no simple perpetual calendar can be constructed. The following table gives the months in order, with the number of days assigned to each. Only three months vary in length. They are: Heshvan, w…

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. L'Estrange.

ve by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries Shak.

ney merchant was so proud of his trust that he went juking and tossing of his head. L' Estrange.

1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

tted with just materials casts a constant heat. Jer. Taylor. When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. Addison. Their named alone would make a just volume. Burton.