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oreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed Spenser.

st year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

d. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

rinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton.

Showing self-forgetfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. Byron.

One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold. Milton.

Rare; wonderful. [Obs.] Spenser.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. Sheridan.

lut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] Shak.

To meet and give salutations. There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. Shak.

; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats. Dryden. [He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o'Shanter." J. C. Shairp.

An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder. B. Jonson.

ke that touches anything. So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed. Dryden.

To be called; to be named. [Obs.] There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite. Chaucer.

pot" under jack; (b) any larger-than-usual gambling prize formed by the accumulation of unwon bets[=MW10 1(a)(2) and 1(c)]; (c) the highest gambling prize awarded in a gambling game in which smaller prizes are also awarded, especially such a prize on a slot machine.

king all five tricks; also, to play to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.