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sure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.

A siege or beleaguering. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

A besieger. [R.] J. Webster.

d with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

One who beleaguers.

A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

Partnership in office. Milton.

A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.

To ally, or form an alliance witgh; to unite; to combine. With a willingness inleague our blood With his, for purchase of full growth in friendship. Ford.

To beleaguer. Holland.

In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer (#), n. -- Land"*lea`guism (#), n.

A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

ish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

ection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. W. Smith.