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darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange.

A plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange.

the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. L'Estrange. I'll go in couples with her. Shak.

ith him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct. L'Estrange. And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver. Matt. xxvi. 15.

acts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange. Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.

ement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching. A succession of cravings and satiety. L'Estrange. -- Crav"ing*ly, adv. -- Crav"ing*ness, n.

hwart; across. [Archaic or Colloq.] A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. L'Estrange. To go cross lots, to go across the fields; totake a short cut. [Colloq.]

inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. Mocaulay. Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to lig…

Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.

Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.

planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me Jer. ii. 21.

a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.

y. A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had been neither life nor soul in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

t used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields. Addison. A banner with this strange device -Excelsior. Longfellow.

soft substance and removing a part. Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. L'Estrange.

usiness, void of strife. Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. L'Estrange.

n exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.…

in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

- Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange. -- Out of doors, or Without doors, and, colloquially, Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke. -- To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's…