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Above in authority or station; -- implying government, direction, care, attention, guard, responsibility, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: under. Thou shalt be over my house. Gen. xli. 40. I will make thee rules over many things. Matt. xxv. 23. Dost thou not watch over my sin Job xiv. 16. His tender mercies are over all his wo…

To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction. [Obs.] Fuller.

hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.

, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.

To reach above or beyond in any direction.

ecisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Kent.

A complete view in every direction.

er, without reference to its motion in space, or to its motion as reckoned in any other direction.

Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial. Hakluyt.

resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.

Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

paces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of th…

metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.

One under the direction of a confessor.

A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.

Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.

A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.

cal perspective, an inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube. -- Perspective glass, a telescope which shows objects in the right position.

he wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.