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A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." Longfellow. And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. Macaulay.

etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )…

To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser.

fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.

The gadfly of cattle.

The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894. [U. S.]

The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph. [R.]

An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. Jamieson.

The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.

Poundage of cattle. See Pound. [Obs.]

One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t. [Obs.]

- Pit viper (Zoöl.), any viperine snake having a deep pit on each side of the snout. The rattlesnake and copperhead are examples. -- Working pit (Min.), a shaft in which the ore is hoisted and the workmen carried; -- in distinction from a shaft used for the pumps.

To set or fix, as a price or value. [Obs.] Shak. Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; -- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]

the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.