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NATIVE (adj.), (i) closely related} O'ER-LEAVEN, lit. put too much
1. 2. 47; (ii) natural; 3. 1. 84 leaven in the bread, (hence)
NATURE, natural affection (cf. 'imbue to excess with some
Z Hen. IV, 4. 5. 39; Mack modifying element' (N.E.D.);
I. 5. 46); I. 2. 102; I. 5. 8lJ 1. 4. 29
3. 2. 396; 3. 3. 32; 4. 5. l6lj O'ER-RAUGHT, overtook, came up
5. 2. 229, 242 with; 3. 1. 17
NAUGHT, improper, lewd; 3. 2.145 O'ER-REACH, get the better of;
NAVE, the hub of a wheel; 2. 2. 500 5. 1. 78
NEIGHBOURED TO, intimately asso- O'ER-SIZED, covered, painted; 2. 2.
ciated with; 2. 2. 12 466
NEMEAN LION, a fierce lion killed O'ER-TEEMED, worn out by ex-
by Hercules (cf. L.L.L. 4.1.87) j cessive breeding; 2. 2. 512
1.4.83 O'ERTOOK, overcome by drinkj
NERO. The reference is to the fact 2. 1. 56
that Nero killed his mother, OFFENCE, (a) anything offensive,
Agrippina; 3. 2. 397 {b) crime, injury; 1. 5. 135;
NERVE, muscle, ligament (as always 3. 2. 232; (sense b only 3. 3.
in Shakespeare; cf. Cor. 2. 1. 177 36, 56, S.8)
'Death.. .in's nervy arm doth OMEN, ominous event (cf. Hey-
lie'); 1. 4. 83 wood, Life of Merlin 'His
NICKNAME (vb.), misname; 3.1.148 country's omen did long since
NIOBE, a daughter of Tantalus, who foretell'); 1. 1. 119
wept unceasingly for her chil- ONCE, ever (cf. A. & C. 5. 2. 50
dren slain by the gods, and was 'If idle talk will once be neces-
finally turned into stone, from sary'); 1. 5. 121
which the tears still trickled; OPEN TO, notorious for; 2. r. 30
1. 2. 149 OPPOSITE (sb.), (i) a contrary or
NOBILITY, high degree, generosity; hostile thing; 3. 2. 219; (ii) op-
1. 2. n o ponent; 5. 2. 62
NOYANCE, harm; 3. 3. 13 OR (conj.), before; 1. 2. 1835
5. 2. 30
OBSEQUIOUS, 'dutiful in performing ORDINANT, guiding, directive; 5. 2.
funeral obsequies or manifesting
regard for the dead; proper to ORE, gold. By confusion with'Or'
obsequies' (N.E.D.); 1. 2. 92 the heraldic name for gold
OBSERVER, courtier, one who pays (Dr Johnson; Cotgrave glosses
respect (cf. Jul. Caes. 4. 3. 45); 'ore' as 'gold'); 4. 1. 25
OSTENTATION, display (in a good
OCCASION, opportunity; 1. 3. 545 sense); 4. 5. 214
2. 2. 16 OUTSTRETCHED, 'strained, puffed
OCCULTED, hidden; 3. 2. 78 up, hyperbolical' (Schmidt; cf.
OCCURRENT, occurrence; 5. 2. 355 Meas. 2. 4. 153); 2. 2. 267
O'ER-CROW, triumph over, (hence) OVERPEER, tower above (cf. M.V.
overpower. A term from cock- 1. 1. 12; K. John 3. i. 23);
fighting; 5. 2. 352 4. 5. 99