These are the meanings of the letters OVERCREEP when you unscramble them.
- Coverer (n.)
One who, or that which, covers.
- Creeper (n.)
A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
- Creeper (n.)
A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
- Creeper (n.)
A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
- Creeper (n.)
A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- Creeper (n.)
A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
- Creeper (n.)
An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
- Creeper (n.)
Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- Creeper (n.)
Crockets. See Crocket.
- Creeper (n.)
One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
- Recover (n.)
Recovery.
- Recover (v. i.)
To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
- Recover (v. i.)
To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
- Recover (v. i.)
To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
- Recover (v. t.)
To cover again.
- Recover (v. t.)
To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
- Recover (v. t.)
To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
- Recover (v. t.)
To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
- Recover (v. t.)
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
- Recover (v. t.)
To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
- Recover (v. t.)
To rescue; to deliver.
- Recover (v. t.)
To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
- Reprove (v. t.)
To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
- Reprove (v. t.)
To convince.
- Reprove (v. t.)
To disprove; to refute.
- Reprove (v. t.)
To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.