Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who possesses; an owner.
- noun One who owes or is in debt.
- An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of
over .
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- preposition Geordie
over - adverb Geordie
over - adjective Geordie
over ,too - noun A person who
owes money.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The lawe of Engelonde is ower will and lieth in ower breest, knave.
March 8th, 2007 hornbookfeed 2007
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God an 'He's new in mine -- an' I prayed this mornin ', a thing I haena dune for mair than twenty years -- an' the auld burn was sweet an 'clear, like when my laddie's lips sippit there lang syne -- I daurna speak His name ower often, but God is gey guid to the sinfu' an 'the weary. "
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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Ye wad be thinkin 'ye was i' yer bed whan ye was i 'the mids' o 'the middin', or pu'in 'the blankets o' the denk dub ower yer heid!
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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There was bonny colours, an 'bonny lichts, an' a bonny grit star hingin 'ower 't a', but it was nane o 'a' thae things; it was something deeper nor a ', an' heicher nor a '!
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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Whoy, O lor, Miss! that wur sa long back, and the walls sa thin, and the winders brokken, and the weather sa cowd, and my missus a-gittin 'ower' er lyin'-in.
Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Thus the idea of HUttnefs, as it is in the mind, exactly anfweri that f ower which is in any body to produce it there.
An abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning human understanding 1782
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August 19th, 2009 9: 57 am ET it is about time to use the ower
WH may push through health care reform without Republicans 2009
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Some of you act like this women is so superior that we are all so scared of her ower and emmsense knowledge of issue that we have to attack her.
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Before getting into why 43 governors, but not the U.S. president, have this p ower, a comment on those who say that impoundment is a pop-gun, that it can't control entitlements or mega-programs.
Congress's Broken Windows Daniel Henninger 2011
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While the basic technology for lithium-ion batteries has been around for a while, making the batteries safe enough to p ower cars has proved elusive.
U.S., China Firms To Make Electric-Car Batteries in Ohio 2010
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