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To hinder. See Impeach. [Obs.] Spenser.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.

To hinder; to impede; to prevent. [Obs.] These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. Sir J. Davies. A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance. Howell.

That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.

One who impeaches.

The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as:

To pleach; to interweave. [Obs.] Shak.

A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.

Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.

To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

To reach beyond.

To reach above or beyond in any direction.

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. Shak.