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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Overpeerverb
To over-look; to hover above. It is now out of use.
Etymology: over and peer.
The ocean over-peering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste,
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O’er-bears your officers. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.Your Argosies with portly sail,
Do over-peer the petty traffickers,
That curt’sy to them, do them reverence. William Shakespeare.Mountainous error wou’d be too highly heapt,
For truth to o’er-peer. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.Thus yields the cedar to the ax’s edge,
Whose top branch o’er-peer’d Jove’s spreading tree,
And kept low shrubs from winter’s pow’rful wind. William Shakespeare.They are invincible by reason of the over-peering mountains that back the one, and slender fortifications of the other to land-ward. George Sandys, Journey.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Overpeer
ō-vėr-pēr′, v.t. (Shak.) to overlook: to look down on: to hover above.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of overpeer in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of overpeer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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