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the testimony. Ex. xxx. 6. Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning. Longfellow.

he battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )

To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.

To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor. My days with toil are overwrought. Longfellow.

Anywhere. [Obs.] "If he found owher a good fellow." Chaucer.

side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.

ritten upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

adise. Luke xxiii. 43. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise. Longfellow.

To produce or adduce as a parallel. [R.] Locke. My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to it. Shak.

h slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: -- At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.

nally an oath. [Written also pardee, pardieux, perdie, etc.] [Obs.] He was, parde, an old fellow of yours. Chaucer.

in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher. He hears the parson pray and preach. Longfellow. Parson bird (Zoöl.), a New Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Novæseelandiæ) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of long, curly, white feathers…

community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] Shak.

Admitting of being parted; partible. Parting fellow, a partner. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Parting sand (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation. -- Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let in…

ers; joint possession or interest. Rome, that ne'er knew three lordly heads before, First fell by fatal partnership of power. Rowe. He does possession keep, And is too wise to hazard partnership. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs. Longfellow. Paschal candle (R. C. Ch.), a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter. -- Paschal flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.

sageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. "Try not the pass!" the old man said. Longfellow.

n, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds "Birds of passage." Longfellow. -- Passage hawk, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.

ing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. Sir W. Scott. Longfellow.