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To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

to become bankrupt. He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty. Bacn.

A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

pportunities of subverting the state." Addison. -- To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.

A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

ripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

e tackle gently. Totten. -- To come up to, to rise to; to equal. -- To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit. -- To come upon. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come u…

Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring. The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church. Swift.

n (Law), an inference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

o yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Shak. And whispering "I will ne'er consent," -- consented. Byron.

To plot; to plan; to combine for. Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall.

distinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.

spute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.