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y reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

few persons; also, those who form the ruling few. All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list. Burton.

manner or degree; for one purpose alone; simply; merely; barely. And to be loved himself, needs only to be known. Dryden.

Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. Milton. This is most opportune to our need. Shak. -- Op`por*tune"ly, adv. -- Op`por*tune"ness, n.

hich appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South. Created beings see nothing but our outside. Addison.

Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.

To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To domineer over by virtue of office. [Obs.] Shak.

A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.

One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor. Milton. We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God. Ray.

by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

l; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else. The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. Sir T. Browne.

The kneepan; the cap of the knee.

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.

An instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass.