Adjective

The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.

It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.

I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.

"Wasn't it peculiar ," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"

"Peculiar ?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."

"Everything about him is peculiar ." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."

Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.

This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,^[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.

But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar', and at least three ' peculiar species of birds.

And purify unto himself a peculiar people.

hymns that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself

while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat

My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.

Adjective

A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, / And soild with dust of the long dried way; / His sandales were with toilesome trauell torne, / And face all tand with scorching sunny ray

After long storms with which my silly bark was tossed sore.

The silly buckets on the deck.

For, if we justly call each silly man'' / A ''little island , What shall we call thee than?

A fourth man, in a silly habit.

All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

(Chaucer)

The silly virgin strove him to withstand.

A silly , innocent hare murdered of a dog.