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usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences. All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. B. Jonson.

To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.

Visiting slums.

To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.

To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation. The flax and the barely was smitten. Ex. ix. 31.

ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial. [Obs.] Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond. Chaucer.

ect; to cull. That he may sort out a worthy spouse. Chapman. I'll sort some other time to visit you. Shak.

churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. Fairholt. Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter. -- Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters…

One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger. Milton.

s in the following sentence: "If there were no honey, they [bees] would have no object in visiting the flower." Lubbock. In some languages, as in Latin and Greek, the subjunctive is often independent of any other verb, being used in wishes, commands, exhortations, etc.

Dryden. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Spectator.

A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration. Synodals are due, of common right, to the bishop only. Gibson.

ng once in every three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation. T. Warton.

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. Addison.

Not dealt with in trade; not visited for purposes of trade. [Obs.] Hakluyt

Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.

ollowed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. The stars that usher evening rose. Milton. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison.

Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural. [Written also vale.] Dryden.