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An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull. [Obs.] To become the geck and scorn O'the other's villainy. Shak.

static; hilarious; elated with drink. [Colloq.] kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious. Burns. During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time. Dryden.

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise. O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. Longfellow.

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

ssy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton.

by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

ne; to incline downward. To decide which way hung the victory. Milton. His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung. Pope.

By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.

r it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak.

widow, etc. Called also achievement. His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. Shak.

no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

eshment betwixt the heats. Dryden. [He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o'Shanter." J. C. Shairp.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. Shak.

ants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.

l to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho" Shak. "Ho! who's within" Shak.

lly; to confine; to restrain. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.