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pl. of Foe. [Obs.] Spenser.

One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. Friend, how camest thou in hither Matt. xxii. 12.

Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. [Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader.]

eatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. "Our grand foe, Satan." Milton. Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission. Shak.

ste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden.

In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.

s a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe.

Inflexible. [R.] "Foes inflexive." Chapman.

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. [Obs.] "Foe not informidable." Milton.

to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper.

One who, or that which, insinuates. De Foe.

ntestine disorders, calamities, etc. Hoping here to end Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued. Milton. An intestine struggle . . . between authority and liberty. Hume.

ht position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in. The . . . jammed in between two rocks. De Foe.

ratulate. [Obs.] "Joy us of our conquest." Dryden. To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe. Prior.

es were opened, and they knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman.

A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce.

d to-fall. The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.

line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object. The foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife. Shak. The glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat we also level. Hooker. She leveled at our purposes. Shak.

ewis hole, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into which a lewis is fitted. De Foe.

ld. Lizard fish (Zoöl.), a marine scopeloid fish of the genus Synodus, or Saurus, esp. S. foetens of the Southern United States and West Indies; -- called also sand pike. -- Lizard snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis). -- Lizard stone (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, Englan…