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To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the 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…

To oppress; to weigh down. [Obs.] Shak.

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.

To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart. Chaucer.

s, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess. Despised and trodden down of all that overran. Spenser.

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton. Hooker.

t wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Ps. lv. 5. Foul deeds will ri…

op and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.

Furnished with a pappus; downy.

in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: -- At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.

Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.

Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. Ps. xxiii. 2. So graze as you find pasture. Shak.

idicule.] His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. Ps. vii. 16. Fat paunches have lean pate. Shak.

A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg." To screw papal authority to the highest peg. Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. Hudibras. Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted. -- Peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the li…

To poise or weight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Lest leaden slumber peise me down. Shak.

Ægithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers.

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.