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; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like. Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death. Dryden. Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.

An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

e sea, etc., in a ferryboat. It can pass the ferry backward into light. Milton. To row me o'er the ferry. Campbell.

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. Talk the game o'er between the deal. Lloyd.

static; hilarious; elated with drink. [Colloq.] kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious. Burns. During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time. Dryden.

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise. O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. Longfellow.

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

ssy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton.

by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

ne; to incline downward. To decide which way hung the victory. Milton. His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung. Pope.

By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.

r it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak.