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To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak.

To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.

To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down. Shak.

From inside to outside, above or across the brim. Good measure, pressed down . . . and running over. Luke vi. 38.

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.

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

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