Search the Dictionary

ide on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner. The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field. Addison.

To exercise superintendence; to watch over. Some o'er the public magazines preside. Dryden.

vious arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. (Parliamentary Practice) See under Question, and compare Closure. -- Previous to, before; -- often used adverbially for previously. "Previous to publication." M. Arnold. "A po…

or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature. Tell her the process of Antonio's end. Shak.

lf she did project. Spenser. Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope.

. Wordsworth. The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves. Milton.

, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope.

modify. Chaucer. As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Milton. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

f an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truthput you o'er to heaven and to my mother. Shak.

of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy. "O'er the watery strath, or quaggy moss." Collins.

anks, and wanton wiles. Milton. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. Tennyson.

he rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

r; to rule. Chaucer. We will not have this man to reign over us. Luke xix. 14. Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom Shak.

red of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

he mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe. He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate.…

The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale. Milton.

to an act or proceeding. Other names were formerly similarly used, as John-a- Nokes, John o', or of the, Nokes, or Noakes, John-a-Stiles, etc.

The state or quality of being rotu Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Shak.

Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc. "Sleek o'er your rugged looks." Shak.

Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.