a. Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. “His beavered brow.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Covered with growing clover. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A joint sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Covered way (Fort.),
n. One who, or that which, covers. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. A female deliverer. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To treat irreverently or with disrespect. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
prop. n. the highest mountain in the world, situated in Nepal and Tibet; 29, 028 feet high. proper name Also used as a metaphor for a high mountain.
adj. Highly excited;
n. A slight fever. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A flatterer. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. irreverentia: cf. F. irrévérence. ] The state or quality of being irreverent; lack of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Irreverent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. irreverens, -entis: cf. F. irrévérent. See In- not, and Reverent. ] Not reverent; showing a lack of reverence; expressive of a lack of veneration;
adv. In an irreverent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. levraut, dim. of lièvre hare, L. lepus. Cf. Leporine. ] (Zool.) A hare in the first year of its age. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. White-livered; cowardly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having (such) a liver; used in composition;
adj. supplied with louvers for ventilation;
n. A door having louvers in place of a solid panel, in part or all of the surface of the door. [ PJC ]
n. A window having louvers in place of glass, usually over the entire surface of the window. [ PJC ]
This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. White-livered; cowardly; timorous. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Too eager; too impatient. --
a. Too earnest. --
v. t. & i.
a. Too elegant. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Excessive and unwarranted emphasis. [ PJC ]
Excessively emphatic. [ PJC ]
v. t. To make too empty; to exhaust. [ R. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Excessive enthusiasm. [ PJC ]
adj. unduly enthusiastic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adv. In an excessively enthusiastic manner. [ PJC ]
a.
Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. An estimate that is too high;
v. t. To excite too much. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Excessively excited. [ PJC ]
n. Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To exert too much. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Excessive exertion;
v. t. To expose excessively;
a. Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. One who palavers; a flatterer. [ 1913 Webster ]