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Anywhere; somewhere. See Owher. [Obs.]

To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

Other. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Upper leather. Shak.

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

To expose too long to the influence of the weather. [Obs.] Shak.

Anywhere. [Obs.] "If he found owher a good fellow." Chaucer.

See under 2d Pack.

See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

Any species of Paleotherium.

Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.

An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]

Resembling Paleotherium. -- n.

In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar. Panther cat (Zoöl.), the ocelot. -- Panther cowry (Zoöl.), a spotted East Indian cowry (Cypræa pantherina); -- so called from its color.

A female panther.

Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.

A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]

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