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Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.

n the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

cold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange. To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one) on the gall, to find falt with; to vex. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. [Poetic.] New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use. Shak.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

Clownishness. L'Estrange.

or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. They laid down the club. L'Estrange. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decora…

a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.

result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come united. How come you thus estranged Shak. How come her eyes so bright Shak.

Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. L'Estrange. Common bar (Law) Same as Blank bar, under Blank. -- Common barrator (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. -- Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. -- Common brawler (Law), one…

A secret; out of the way knowledge. [Obs.] Well read in strange concealments. Shak.

quip. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. Pope. Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. Dryden.…

e; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

. . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange.

hanges and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.

y; one who, or that which, is inconsistent. can be make deathless death That were to make Strange contradiction. Milton. We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the…