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by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.] The goat gives the fox a lift. L'Estrange.

Appearance or form; guise. An enemy in the likeness of a friend. L'Estrange.

ear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. L'Estrange.

y. Also Fig. A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter. D. Estrange. Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. South.

ving comfortably. There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases. L' Estrange.

erheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.

Awkwardly. L'Estrange.

Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. L'Estrange.

eedle. [Colloq.] Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. L'Estrange. -- To run mad. (a) To become wild with excitement. (b) To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia. -- To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or i…

go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange.

ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. L'Estrange.

ity; portion; space; -- often indefinite. Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles. L' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. Mi lton.

Nauseous. [Obs.] L' Estrange.

anthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

tion; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

in in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak.

ability. It is morally impossible for an hypocrite to keep himself long upon his guard. L'Estrange.