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Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers..

Cicerone :: Cicerone (n.) One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country..

Unwonted :: Unwonted (a.) Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers..

Scavage :: Scavage (n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts..

Xenelasia :: Xenelasia (n.) A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners..

Notice :: Notice (v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers..

Noninhabitant :: Noninhabitant (n.) One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

Butlerage :: Butlerage (n.) A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.].

Neglect :: Neglect (v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers..

Fren :: Fren (a.) A stranger.

Tramontane :: Tramontane (n.) One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger..

Aubaine :: Aubaine (n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

Know :: Know (v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization..

Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London..

Polemarch :: Polemarch (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer..

Pilgrim :: Pilgrim (n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

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