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The mouth of a river; an estuary. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass. An imposture outdoes the original. L' Estrange. I grieve to be outdone by Gay. Swift.

One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley.

f a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South. Created beings see nothing but our outside. Addison.

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge, overgrown ox. L'Estrange.

s are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) administration, selling, and distribution, charges, etc.

To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate. [Obs.] Shak.

To measure or estimate too largely.

Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidæ. It is highly esteemed as food.

paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).

swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.

nt states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.

the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d. for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds. A general parcel post was established in the United States by Ac…

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.