Webster's Dictionary, 1913
Over-arm adjective (Cricket, etc.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard . "An
over-arm with a round-arm bowler."
R. A. Proctor.
Over-busy adjective Too busy; officious.
Overact transitive verb 1. To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part. 2. To act upon, or influence, unduly. [ Obsolete]
The hope of inheritance overacts them.
Milton.
Overact intransitive verb To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action. B. Jonson.
Overaction noun Per...ormance to excess; exaggerated or excessive action.
Overaffect transitive verb To affect or care for unduly. [ Obsolete] Milton.
Overagitate transitive verb To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
Overall adverb Everywhere. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
Overalls noun plural
1. A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling. 2. Waterproof leggings. R. D. Blackmore.
Overanxiety noun The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.
Overanxious adjective Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly , adverb
Overarch transitive verb & i. To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch. "Brown with o'erarching shades." Pope.
Overawe transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Overawed ;
present participle & verbal noun Overawing .]
To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword.
Spenser.
Overawful adjective Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree. [ R.] Milton.
Overbalance transitive verb
1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
Overbalance noun Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports. J. Edwards.
Overbarren adjective Excessively barren.
Overbattle adjective [ Over + battle , adjective ] Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [ Obsolete] " Overbattle grounds." Hooker.
Overbear transitive verb 1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.
Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them.
Jowett (Thucyd. ) 2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
Overbear intransitive verb To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Overbearing adjective
1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts. 2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ly , adverb -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness , noun
Overbend transitive verb To bend to excess.
Overbend intransitive verb To bend over. [ R.]
Overbid transitive verb To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.
Overbide transitive verb To outlive. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
Overblow intransitive verb
1. To blow over, or be subdued. [ R.] Spenser. 2. (Mus.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing .
Overblow transitive verb To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. When this cloud of sorrow's overblown .
Waller.
Overboard adverb Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard .
To throw overboard , to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.
Overboil intransitive verb To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil
In the hot throng.
Byron.
Overbold adjective Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O"ver*bold"ly , adverb
Overbookish adjective Excessively bookish.
Overbounteous adjective Bounteous to excess.
Overbow transitive verb To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction. [ Obsolete] Fuller.
Overbreed transitive verb To breed to excess.
Overbrim intransitive verb To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [ R.]
Overbrow transitive verb To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [ Poetic]
Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow
Large space beneath.
Wordsworth.
Overbuild transitive verb
1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
Overbuilt adjective Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
Overbulk transitive verb To oppress by bulk; to overtower. [ Obsolete & R.] Shak.
Overburden transitive verb To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.
Overburden noun The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry. Raymond.
Overburdensome adjective Too burdensome.
Overburn transitive verb & i. To burn too much; to be overzealous.
Overbuy transitive verb
1. To buy too much. 2. To buy at too dear a rate. Dryden.
Overcanopy transitive verb To cover as with a canopy. Shak.
Overcapable adjective Too capable. [ R.]
Overcapable of such pleasing errors.
Hooker.
Overcare noun Excessive care. Dryden.
Overcareful adjective Too careful. Shak.
Overcarking adjective Too anxious; too full of care. [ Archaic] Fuller.
Overcarry transitive verb & i. To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
