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Anything which is in ordinary or common use. Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. Sir W. Scott.

The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey.

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. Burke.

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

t a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

That which jets out or projects from anything. [R.] H. Miller.

The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. Receiving all, and having no outlet. Fuller.

Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.

do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak.

To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice. Shak.

One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.

To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. Acts xvii. 30 (Rev. Ver. ) They overlook truth in the judgments…

To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.

To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.

A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

The material with which anything is padded.

A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten.

A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon. Macaulay.