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usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.

air words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. L' Estrange.

o befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. -- To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another.

y-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

cap. An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. L'Estrange.

(a) To overtake. [Obs.] "Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please." L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.

Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

To put into the head of, as something useless o [Obs.] L'Estrange.

A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange.

ecessary for flight. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. L'Estrange.

ne treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange.

A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.

s wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.

in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.

Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. L'Estrange.

. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.