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Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. Bacon. Awful parsimony presided generally at the table. Thackeray.

To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] "This passes, Master Ford." Shak.

Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." Shak.

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of uncertainties and doubts." Milton.

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

To suffuse; to fill full or to excess. Harvey.

Excessive care or diligence. [Obs.]

Redundant or excessive in words. [R.]

The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. [Obs.]

of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous. "Excess of outward and pharisaical holiness. " Bacon. "Pharisaical ostentation." Macaulay. -- Phar`i*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phar`i*sa"ic*al*ness, n.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.

An abnormal or excessive production of leaves.

on to the beautiful and the sublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.

sily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; esp. difficult or eccentric person. Piece of ass vulgar term for a woman, considered as a partner in sexual intercourse

A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.

Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.

A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.

The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority…