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To supply in excess.

n; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.]

Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.

A cup containing poison.

cies of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species. Porcupine ant-eater (Zoöl.), the echidna. -- Porcupine crab (Zoöl.), a large spiny Japanese cra…

A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.

Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. Kent.

A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.

See Powp. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.

A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

To anticipate; to take before. [Obs.] "Fear preoccupateth it [death]." Bacon.

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.