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ent, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

Organic structure; organization. "The advantageous organism of the eye." Grew.

Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc. Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science. De Quincey.

Toward the outside. [R.] Grew.

ace which lies without an inclosure; the outer side, as of a door, walk, or boundary. I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside. Spectator.

To make too empty; to exhaust. [R.] Carew.

To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

To overstrew. [Obs.] Shak.

See Overstrew.

with. Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser.

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

g.] -- Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. -- Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.

led in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

ially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: -- At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.

ature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

tion of any kind; -- followed by with or from. Celia, for thy sake, I part With all that grew so near my heart. Waller. Powerful hands . . . will not part Easily from possession won with arms. Milton. It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son. A. Trollope.…

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

Curs [Obs.] On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop. Sir P. Pett.

Passibility. Brerewood.