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Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling." Fuller.

Covered or concealed by a different odor. Fuller.

too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.] The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller. Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole.

To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. Fuller.

To soar too high. [R.] Fuller.

Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] "Of no overweight worth." Fuller.

[Obs.] He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. Fuller.

Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden.

To make a palatinate of. [Obs.] Fuller.

gory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.

Conformed to popery. [Obs.] "Papized writers." Fuller.

ng the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strict…

Division; the act of dividing or sharing. [Obs.] Fuller.

ulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. [Obs.] Fuller.

yance of public lands. Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent. Fuller.

elf." Spenser. "Paltry pelf." Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry Fuller.

ering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.

to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.

perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of. "A perfective alteration." Fuller. Actions perfective of their natures. Ray.