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A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

One of the three Fates, Past, Present, and Future. Their names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld.

The present time or moment; the present. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last. Cowley.

Sight; show; appearance; aspect. [Obs.] Shak. He, advancing close Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose In glorious object. Chapman.

er wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of the chase…

Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.

s of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray.

To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.

vercome; to oppress. [Obs.] Mortimer. "O'ergrown with labor." Beau. & Fl. [Usually in the past participle.]

A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening. [R.] Shak.

Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.

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

A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper.

The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. -- Pa*læ`ti*o*log"ic*al, a.

A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. Brande & C.

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

shed from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties. "Parochial pastors." Bp. Atterbury. Hence, limited; narrow. "The parochial mind." W. Black.