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ountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

The bearer of a flag; an ensign. [Obs.] This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. Shak.

fect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.

Already past or gone; bygone. [R.] And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. Byron.

under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

he base or support; to overhang; to jut. To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

termediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. -- Between ourselves, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to o…

t; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

e blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

c shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.

A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp]. T. Arnold.

olence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

A brave person; one who is daring. The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. F. S. Key.

th violently, as a storm. The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, A second deluge o'er our head may break. Shak.

r in gentle motion. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface. Addison.

signating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.