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dress. [R.] And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.

To superintend; to oversee; to inspect. [Obs.]

One in authority over others; a chief; usually, an overseer or boss.

An overseer; a superintendent.

Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. [Obs.] Peacham.

The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe.

One versed in palætiology.

One versed in paleobotany.

One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

One versed in paleontology.

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

gonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. -- Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus, campestris). -- Pampas grass (Bot.), a v…

The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.

One versed in pantheology.

A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (

One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.