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Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome. You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services. Shak.

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] Fairfax.

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.

e a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.

ving one side only, or one side prominent; hence, limited to one side; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement. "Unguarded and one-sided language." T. Arnold.

The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events. The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life. Prof. Wilson.

n; fitness. [Obs.] Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton.

The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle. Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand. Drayton.

or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard. The compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic. G. Eliot.

A fairy; a goblin; an elf. [Obs.] "Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies." Shak.

To emit with great noise. [Obs.] Fairfax.

One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. Lyon Playfair.

To river; to sever. [Obs.] Fairfax.

External form; exterior. [R.] So fair an outward and such stuff within. Shak.

To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.

To project or impend over threateningly. His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight. Shak.

Excess of zeal. Fairfax.

To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope.

ne of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.