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With eyes widely open; watchful; vigilant. Shak.

Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Outrage, v. i. [Obs.] This warn I you, that ye not suddenly Out of yourself for no woe should outraye. Chaucer.

To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another). Shak.

To superintend; to oversee; to inspect. [Obs.]

One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.

Having eyes like an owl's.

The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.

Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton.

A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing. Blackstone. Oyer and terminer (Law), a term used in England in commissions directed to judges of assize about to hold court, directing them to hear and determine cases brought before them. In the U.S. the phrase…

o secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times. [Written also oyes.]

e division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

Pagan. Etym: [F.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.

A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).

mphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

Having small, deep-set eyes.