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PTO |
See over |
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OVERSEE |
Manage to see over backwards |
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IMPROVE |
I see parliamentarian upset over rally |
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SUPERINSPECT |
To over see; to superintend by inspection. |
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EPIBOLIC |
Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of
invagination. See under Invagination. |
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BANNEROL |
A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral
procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole. |
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ARCHBISHOPRIC |
The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see
or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority. |
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PENATES |
The household gods of the ancient Romans. They
presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar. |
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BLINDING |
A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved
road. See Blind, v. t., 4. |
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STOP-OVER |
Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or
ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. |
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CRAWL |
To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. |
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IMPEND |
To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome
near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent. |
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PLATFORM |
A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or
over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop. |
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SPHYGMOGRAPH |
An instrument which, when applied over an artery,
indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See
Sphygmogram. |
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BESIDES |
Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition
to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside. |
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DOUBLOON |
A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value
at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon
in Sup. |
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STUMP |
To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering
purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump,
under Stump, n. |
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CAPE |
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the
neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the
hips. See Cloak. |
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LEAP YEAR |
Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year
which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February
twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. |
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ROULETTE |
The curve traced by any point in the plane of a given
curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve.
See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. |
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ABBESS |
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of
nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have
over the monks. See Abbey. |
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PRIORY |
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also
cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. |
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FLYER |
The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning
frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from
their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11. |
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TRANSOM |
A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between
a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is
the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion. |
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PERKINISM |
A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities
of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part;
tractoration, -- first... |