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Capable of being convinced or won over.

Over a signal number, when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register.

Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coördinate powers presiding over each country. Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms. Rev. R. Morris. Coördinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the…

A covering for the head. [Obs.] Johnson.

of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The "pope and patriarch" has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of…

Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. He . . . with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. Milton.

The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands. Hooper.

In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. W. W. Goodwin.

d with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. [Obs.] The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps. Bacon. Army corps, or (French) Corps d'armée (k, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself. -- Corps de logis (ke l Etym: [F.…

To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. O. W. Holmes.

A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. [They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.

To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

To vote in opposition ti; to balance or overcome by viting; to outvote. Dr. J. Scott.

wing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

A short coat of coarse cloth. [Obs.] Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.

To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. H. Swinburne. Coved ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. -- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meetin…

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.