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have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. Swift. He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.

A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.

o surpass. An imposture outdoes the original. L' Estrange. I grieve to be outdone by Gay. Swift.

To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.

, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen. Swift.

To post over; to pass over swiftly, as by post. Shak.

To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle.

To outwit. Swift.

To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town Swift. You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. Tennyson.

apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

(Elæis Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See Elæis. -- Palm swift (Zoöl.), a small swift (Cypselus Btassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm. -- Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine. -- Palm weevil (Zoöl.)…

Same as Panderism. Swift.

Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift.

s; resemblance; similarity. Twixt earthly females and the moon All parallels exactly run. Swift.

phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass 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…

gruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.

pecimen; a sample; an example; an instance. He compares the pattern with the whole piece. Swift.

To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [Obs.] Swift.

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift.

A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.