Search the Dictionary

o rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon. These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled. F. W. Newman.

One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.

Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.

row or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.

One that overruns. Lovelace.

A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.

An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

A wandering, or rambling, through various places. [R.] Howell.

Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.

Precious stones; jewels. [Obs.] [Written also perre, perrye, etc.] Chaucer.

A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot. Hakluyt.

An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to mediævel or later structures of some architectural pretensions.

See Paroquet, Parakeet.

See Peruke.

A marker of perukes or wigs.

A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider. Mortimer.

A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. [Obs.] Shak.

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.

One who prefers.

A groom; an equerry. [Obs.]