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The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

Oligarchic. Glover.

Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. "Oligarchical exiles." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.

wer is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few. All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list. Burton.

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch. "Brown with o'erarching shades." Pope.

To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

To search all over.

A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.

A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice. [U. S. & Eng.]

Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Government by a pope; papal rule.

The Fates. See Fate, 4.

Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] "A parcel of her woe." Chaucer. Two parcels of the white of an egg. Arbuthnot. The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. J. A. Symonds.

ranch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d. for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds. A general parcel post…