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. Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. Rom. of R. Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. John xx. 27. Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. Milton.

Being within reach.

One who reaches.

Being beyond reach; lofty. Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. Bp. Hall.

g or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

Earshot. Marston.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

To reach beyond.

To reach above or beyond in any direction.

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.

on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon. How shall they preach, except they be sent Rom. x. 15. From that time Jesus began to preach. Matt. iv. 17.

One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14.

The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.

To discourse in the manner of a preacher. [Colloq.] Thackeray.