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The seed of the opium poppy.

It seems to me. [Poetic]

To suit ill.

To seek for wrongly. [Obs.]

To make a false appearance. [Obs.]

A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

To see beyond; to excel in cer

To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

The office of an overseer.

The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.

The religion and customs of the Parsees.

Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passée belle. Ld. Lytton.

One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.

See Pharisaism.

The person to whom a promise is made.

One to whom a release is given.

See Releasee.

The party in whose favor a rescue is made. Crabb.