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To cross or pass over by flight. Byron.

By, upon, or across, land.

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge th…

To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. "Let me o'erleap that custom." Shak.

To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.

To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.

To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart. Chaucer.

Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. [Obs.] Peacham.

A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church. "Papal Christians." Bp. Burnet. Papal cross. See Illust. 3 of Cross. -- Papal crown, the tiara.

undergone by an object when viewed by either eye singly. Brande & C. -- Parallax of the cross wires (of an optical instrument), their apparent displacement when the eye changes its position, caused by their not being exactly in the focus of the object glass. -- Stellar parallax, the annual parallax of a fixed star.…

swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. "But now pass over [i.e., pass on]." Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. Col…

sing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. What! are my doors opposed against my passage! Shak…

of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18). To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.

ity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

dure the load. Shak. Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. Keble.

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; - - said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust.

e inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross. [Written also paté, patee.]