Tempest, i. 2.

To overtake; to cote; to

Madam, it so fell out, that certain players

We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him.

Hamlet, iii. 1.

Upon my life, by some device or other
The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.
Comedy of Errors, i. 2.

We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,
The narrow-prying father, Minola,
The quaint musician, amorous Licio;
All for my master's sake, Lucentio.

Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2.
TO OVER-RED. To redden; to smear with red.
Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-liver'd boy.

Macbeth, v. 3.

Henry 4, P. 2, i. 1.

'A came ever in the rearward of the fashion; and sung those tunes to the overscutched huswives that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his Fancies or his Good-nights.

Henry 4, P. 2, iii. 2.

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TO OVERWATCH. To tire with want of sleep.

I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn,
As much as we this night have overwatch'd.
Midsummer-Night's Dream, v. 1.
All weary and o'erwatch'd,

Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
This shameful lodging.
King Lear, ii. 2.
Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'erwatch'd.
Julius Caesar, iv. 3.

TO OVERWEEN. To think with arrogance; to presume.

Mowbray, you overween to take it so ;
This offer comes from mercy, not from fear.

Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 1.
My eye's too quick, my heart o'erireens too much,
Unless my hand and strength could equal them.
Henry 6, P. 3, iii. 2.

And, like a strutting player, whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring,

Such to-be-pitied and o'erwrested seeming

He acts thy greatness in. Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.

To OwE. To own; to possess.

This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes.

Else let my brother die,
If not a fedary, but only he,
Owe and succeed this weakness.

Tempest, i. 2.

Measure for Measure, ii. 4.

Other of them may have crooked noses; but to owe such straight arms, none. Cymbeline, iii. 1. What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe, If he can carry it thus!

Othello, i. 1.

Not poppy nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.

OWED. Due; dedicated; devoted.

Never may

Ibid. iii. 3.

That state or fortune fall into my keeping,
That is not ow'd to you! Timon of Athens, i. 1.

TO PACE.

To guide; to direct.

If you can, pace your wisdom

In that good path that I would wish it go;
And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,

And general honour. Measure for Measure, iv. 3.

PACK. A confederacy for some bad purpose. O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2.

TO PACK. To confederate for some bad pose; to act in concert.

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TO PAGE. To follow as a page.

Will these moss'd trees,

Hamlet, iii. 4.

Against the old kind king.

King Lear, iii. 1.

PALATE.

PACTION. Agreement; compact.

That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,

Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,

To make divorce of their incorporate league.

Henry 5, v. 2.

TO PADDLE. To play with; to feel; to finger. Didst thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? didst not mark that? Othello, ii. 1.

Flavour; relish.

Timon of Athens, v. 2.