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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up 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.

ng; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.

tory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. Dryden.

The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

ralytic secretion (Physiol.), the fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax. Brande & C.

A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. Smart.

triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure. Percy Smith.

"The passions of this time." Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18). To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.

Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. Is it not past two o'clock Shak.

In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.

Something made after a model; a copy. Shak. The patterns of things in the heavens. Heb. ix. 23.

Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. "The eternal love and pees." Chaucer.

The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.

A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.

tential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.