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rge, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.

Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.

A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.

To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century. Ferrand.

Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity. Twixt earthly females and the moon All parallels exactly run. Swift.

To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. Dryden.

Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. Chaucer. "Her passing deformity." Shak. Passing note (Mus.), a character including a passing tone. -- Passing tone (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.…

complaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. Keble.…

going pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long- suffering.

The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also pea and pee.] Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.

Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy. Then had he spent all his philosophy. Chaucer.

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.

g or holding it. -- To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians.

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.