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allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands. Fairholt.

Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.

ospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion. [Obs.] Fairfax. "That woeful stowre." Spenser. She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts]. Chaucer.

Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.

To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

ove at large; to roam; to go astray. Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray. Shak. A sheep doth very often stray. Shak.

ious to please; studious to find new friends and allies. You that are so studious Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own. Massinger.

Lofty of mien; haughty; proud. [Poetic] "Countenance sublime and insolent." Spenser. His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule. Milton.

eriority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton.

The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. Bp. Hall.

Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair. Shak.

above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.

One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.

Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.

Suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer. So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed. Fairfax.

Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton.

To be in the swim, to be in a favored position; to be associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]

An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake. Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope.