lareover 
lareover (lar'6"ver), . See layer-over. 
When children are over inquisitive as to the meaning or 
use of any articles, it is sometimes the custom to rebuke 
them by saying they are lareovers for meddlers. llalliwell. 
Lares, n. The Latin plural of Zar 1 . 
largamente (lar-ga-men'te), adv. [It., < largo, 
large: see large.'] In music, largely; broadly; 
in a manner chai-acterized by breadth of style 
without change of time. Grove. 
large (larj), a. and n. [< ME. large, < OF. large, 
F. large = Sp. Pg. It. largo, < L. largus, abun- 
dant, plentiful, copious, large, much.] I. a. 
1. Ample in dimensions, quantity, or number ; 
having much size, bulk, volume, extent, ca- 
pacity, scope, length, breadth, etc., absolutely 
or relatively; being of more than common 
measure; wide: broad; spacious; great; big; 
bulky: opposed to small or little, and used of 
both corporeal and incorporeal subjects : as, a 
large house, man, or ox ; a large plain or river ; 
a large supply, assembly, or number of people ; 
to deal on a large scale or with large subjects ; 
to seek a larger sphere ; a man of large mind or 
heart; a large manner in painting; the largest 
liberty of action ; to confer large powers upon 
an agent ; large views. 
Large er tho londes, that his eldres wonnen. 
Rob. of Brunne, p. 144. 
They buried him in Legate's Den, 
A large mile frae Harlaw. 
Battle of Uarlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 819). 
When ye go, ye shall come ... to a large land. 
Judges xviii. 10. 
I pray God bless us both, and send us. after this large 
Distance, a joyful Meeting. Howell, Letters, I. i. 6. 
From this place we had a large prospect of the Plain of 
Esdraelon, which is of a vast extent, and very fertile. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 67. 
In all seasons there will be some instances of persons 
who have souls too large to be taken with popular preju- 
dices. Steele, Spectator, No. 294. 
2f. Full; complete. 
They slepen til that it was pryme large. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 362. 
"Smyte on boldely," sayd Robyn, 
"I give the large leve. 
Lytell Oeste of JKobyn Hade (Child's Ballads, V. 116). 
3f. Ample or free in expenditure ; liberal ; lav- 
ish; prodigal; extravagant. 
But by thy lyf ne be namoore so large: 
Keepe bet cure good, that geve I thee in charge. 
Chaucer, Shipman's Tale, 1. 431. 
Large of his treasures, of a soul so great 
As fills and crowds his universal seat (Innocent XI.]. 
Dryden, Britannia Kediviva, 1. 86. 
4f. Ample or liberal in words; diffuse; free; 
full; extended: applied to language. 
The declarations we have sent inclosed, the one more 
breefe & generall, which we thinke y 6 fitter to be present- 
ed ; the other something more large. 
Quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 34. 
If I shall be large, or unwonted in justifying my selfe 
to those who know me not, for else it would be need- 
lesse, let them consider that a short slander will oft times 
reach farder then a long apology. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
5f. Free from restraint ; being at large. 
Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. Fairfax. 
6f. Free from moral restraint; broad; licen- 
tious. 
The man doth fear God, howsoever it seems not in him by 
some large jests he will make. Shale., Much Ado, ii. 8. 206. 
7t. Clamorous; boisterous; blatant. 
Some men seyn he was of tonge large. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 804. 
8f. Free; favorable as regards direction; fair: 
applied to the wind. See large, adv., 3. 
The same night about midnight arose another great 
storme, but the winde was large with vs, vntill the 27 of 
the same moneth, which then grew somewhat contrary. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 282. 
=Syn. 1. Big, etc. (see great) ; capacious, expansive, spa- 
cious. 
II. n. 1. Freedom; unrestraint: in the phrase 
at large (which see, below). 2f. In old musical 
notation, a note properly 
equivalent in value either to 
three or to two longs, accord- 
ing to the rhythm used. Also called a maxima 
or maxim. It was variously made, as when used 
at the end of a piece its time value was often 
indefinite. 
A large, a long, a breve, a semibreve, 
A minim, a crotchet, a quaver, a semiquaver. 
iliddleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, v. 1. 
3f. Bounty; largess. 
It bicometh to a kynge to kepe and to defende, 
And conquerour of conquest his lawes and his large. 
Piers Plowman (B), xlx. 43. 
At large (formerly also at his large, etc.). (a) At liberty ; 
without restraint or confinement : as, to go at large; to 
be left at large. 
3356 
Alwey they seke upward on highte, 
While eche of hem is at his large. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 745. 
A byrd in hand, as some men say, is worth ten [that] fiye 
at large. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 98. 
The will 
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven 
Left him at large to his own dark designs. 
Milton, P. L., !. 213. 
In prison I expected greater satisfactions than I had en- 
joyed at large. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xxvii. 
(b) At length ; in or to the full extent ; fully : as, to dis- 
course on a subject at large. 
I will now declare at large why, in mine opinion, loue 
is fitter than feare. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 31. 
This is more at large describ'd in the Gazette of that 
day. Evelyn, Diary, 'June 2, 1672. 
(c) In general; as a whole; altogether. 
The nation at large gained greatly by the revolution. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 
(d) For the whole; free from the customary limitation. In 
the United States a congressman at large is one elected 
by the voters of a whole State instead of those of a single 
district, which is done when the existing apportionment 
by districts does not provide for all the representatives 
to which the State is entitled. In some places an alder- 
man or a supervisor at large is elected by a whole city or 
county, in addition to those elected by wards or town- 
ships. Common at large. See common, n., 4. 
larget, v.i. [< ME. largen ; < large, a. Cf . enlarge, 
of which large is in part an aphetic form.] To 
get free. [Rare.] 
And most especyally by the power and wyll of Almyghty 
God, with meruaylous dyffycultye, we larged frame the 
shore. Sir It. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 00. 
large (larj), adv. [< ME. large; < large, a.] If. 
Largely; broadly; freely; with licensee 
Al speke he nevere so rudelyche and large. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 784. 
2t. Fully; at large. 
A greter payne, as more large apperyth in for-sayde 
autoryte. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 84. 
3. Naut., before the wind; with the wind free 
or on the quarter, or in such a direction that 
studding-sails will draw: as, to go or sail large. 
We continued running large before the northeast trade- 
winds for several days. 
R. a. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 20. 
4f. Full; at full; in all. 
My selfe, with many good freinds in ye south-collonie of 
Virginia, have received snch a blow that 400. persons large 
will not make good our losses. 
.'. Hudston, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, 
[p. 125. 
5. "Big"; boastfully. [Colloq.] By and large. 
See 6j/i, ado. 
large-acred (larj'a'kerd), a. Possessing much 
laud. 
Heathcote himself, and such large-acred men, 
Lords of fat E'sham, or of Lincoln fen, 
Buy every stick of wood that lends them heat. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 240. 
large-handed (liirj'han"ded), a. Having large 
hands. Hence (a) Rapacious; grasping; greedy. 
Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, 
And pill by law! Shak., T. of A , iv. 1. 11. 
(b) Profuse ; generous : as, large-handed charity. 
large-hearted (larj'har"ted), a. Having a large 
heart or liberal disposition; sympathetic; gen- 
erous ; liberal ; magnanimous. 
Such as made Sheba's curious queen resort 
To the large-hearted Hebrew's famous court. 
Waller, To the Countess of Carlisle. 
large-heartedness (larj'har*ted-nes), n. Large- 
ness of heart ; generosity. 
In regard of reasonable and spiritual desires, the effects 
of this affection are large-heartedness and liberality. 
Bp. Reynolds, The Passions, xvii. 
largely (larj'li), adv. [< ME. largely; < large, 
a., + -ty2.~] In a large manner; to a great ex- 
tent; copiously; diffusely; amply; liberally; 
bountifully; abundantly; fully: as, the sub- 
ject was largely discussed. 
large-minded (larj'mln"ded), a. Liberal; not 
narrow in ideas; characterized by breadth of 
view. 
I fear we shall find that, instead of training our girls to 
be large-minded, useful, agreeable women, we shall have 
trained them to have little or no real interest in anything. 
Nineteenth Century, XXIII. 229. 
large-mindedness (larj'min*ded-nes), n. Lib- 
erality of ideas; freedom from narrowness; 
magnanimity. 
largen (lar'jn), v. [< large + -en^.'] I. intrant. 
To become large or larger; wax. [Rare.] 
And the one eye that meets my view, 
Lidless and strangely largening, too, 
Like that of conscience in the dark, 
Seems to make me its single mark. 
Lowell, Oracle of the Goldfishes. 
II. trans. To make large or larger ; enlarge ; 
increase. [Rare.] 
largition 
No more a vision, reddened, largened, 
The moon dips toward her mountain nest. 
Lowell, Appledore, vi. 
largeness (liirj'nes), n. The condition or qual- 
ity of being large, (a) Bigness ; bulk ; magnitude : 
as, the largeness of an animal. 
Circles are prais'd, not that abound 
In largeness, but th' exactly round. 
Waller, Long and Short Life. 
(b) Comprehension ; scope ; extensiveness : as, largeness 
of intellect or of a view. 
There will be occasion for largeness of mind and agree- 
ableness of temper. Jeremy Collier, Friendship. 
(c) Extension ; amplitude ; volume : as, the largeness of an 
offer. 
The Umhrian champaign, breaking away into the valley 
of the Tiber, spreads in all the large-ness of majestically 
converging mountain slopes. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 68. 
(d) Freedom ; breadth ; latitude ; unrestraint. 
The captain was tried by a council of war, and acquitted 
by the largeness of his commission. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 235. 
This largeness of style is the result of that long and pro- 
found study of nature which teaches the artist how to se- 
lect and to give due prominence to the parts which are 
essential to the main idea, every detail not so essential 
being subordinated, or, if necessary, omitted. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Archseol., p. 402. 
(e) Magnanimity. 
If the largeness of a man's heart carry him beyond pru- 
dence, we may reckon it illustrious weakness. Bacon. 
(/t) Liberality. 
Loo! Laurence for bus largenesse! as holy lore telleth, 
That hus mede and bus man-hede for euere-more shal 
laste; . . . 
He gal godes men godes goodes and nat to grete lordes. 
Piers Plowman (C), xviii. 64. 
largess, largesse (liir'jes), n. [< ME. largesse,< 
OF. largesse, F. largesse = Sp. Pg. largueza = It. 
larghezza, a bounty, < LL. as if "largttia (= L. 
largitio(n-), ,a bestowing freely: see largition), < 
L. largiri, give freely, < largus, large, liberal : see 
large, a.] 1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
Avarice maketh alwey mokereres to ben hated, and lar- 
gesse maketh folk cler of renoun. 
Chaucer, Boethius, ii. prose 5. 
I oould not bear to see those eyes 
On all with wasteful largesse shine. 
Lowell, The Protest. 
2. A liberal gift or donation; a present; a 
bounty bestowed. 
Ther mette I cryinge many oon, 
A larges ! larges '. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1309. 
The great donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding 
of the armies, were things able to enflame all men's cou- 
rages. Bacon, Kingdoms and Estates. 
I have not lack'd thy mild reproof, 
Nor golden largess of thy praise. 
Tennyson, Song. 
To cry a largess, to ask for a gift or bounty, as was 
anciently the custom of the minstrels at feasts. 
To crye a largesse by-fore oure lorde cure goode loos to 
shewe. Piers Plowman (C), viii. 109. 
= Syn. 2. Gratuity, etc. See present, n. 
larget (lar'jet), n. A length of iron cut from 
a bar and of proper size to roll into a sheet. 
It usually has a weight of about 14 pounds. It is heated 
preparatory to rolling, and is rolled while hot. 
larghetto (lar-get'to), a. and n. [It., some- 
what slow, < largo, < L. largus, large : see large.'] 
I. a. In music, somewhat slow : noting a passage 
to be rendered in somewhat slow tempo ; not so 
slow as largo, but usually slower than andante. 
II. n. A movement intended to be performed 
in somewhat slow tempo. 
largiflcalt (lar-jif'i-kal), a. [< L. largificws, 
bountiful, < largus, large, + facere, make.] 
Generous; bountiful; ample; liberal. Blount. 
largifluoust (lar-jif'lu-us), a. [< L. largifluus, 
flowing copiously, copious, < largus, copious 
(large, copiously), + fluere, flow.] Flowing co- 
piously. Bailey, 1727. 
largilOQUentt (lar-jil'o-kwent), a. [< L. large, 
abundantly, + loquen(t-)s, ppr. of loqui, speak.] 
Speaking in a bombastic or boasting manner ; 
grandiloquent. Coles, 1717. 
Largina (lar-ji'na), n. pi. [NL., < Largus + 
-ina 2 .] A subfamily of bugs of the family Pyr- 
rliocoridte, typified by the genus Largus, having 
large prominent eyes placed obliquely, no ocelli, 
triangular face with prominent anteuniferous 
tubercles, and five-jointed antenna?. It is an Ameri- 
can group, rich in species of varied forms and colors, ex- 
tending from the southern United States through most of 
South America. It would be more regularly Larginee. 
largitiont (lar-jish'pn), n. [< OF. largition = 
It. largi:ione, < L. largitio(n-), a giving freely, 
< largiri, give freely, < largws, abundant : sec 
large. Cf . largess.] The bestowment of a lar- 
gess or gift; bounty. 
