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Definition of stranger

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Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..

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Usher :: Usher (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

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

Sojournment :: Sojournment (n.) Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler..

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..

Prytaneum :: Prytaneum (n.) A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers..

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

Xenium :: Xenium (n.) A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador..

Alienate :: Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.

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.

Sojourn :: Sojourn (v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry..

Estranger :: Estranger (n.) One who estranges.

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..

Uncuth :: Uncuth (n.) A stranger.

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) A house for the reception of strangers.

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook..

Fren :: Fren (a.) A stranger.

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..

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

Alien :: Alien (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage..