Webster's Dictionary, 1913
Over-garment noun An outer garment.
Overearnest adjective Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly , adverb -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness , noun
Overeat transitive verb & i.
1. To gnaw all over, or on all sides. [ Obsolete] Shak. 2. To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.
Overelegant adjective Too elegant. Johnson.
Overempty transitive verb To make too empty; to exhaust. [ R.] Carew.
Overest adjective [
Superl. of
Over .]
Uppermost; outermost. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy.
Chaucer.
Overestimate transitive verb To estimate too highly; to overvalue.
Overestimate noun An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote.
Overexcite transitive verb To excite too much.
Overexcitement noun Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
Overexert transitive verb To exert too much.
Overexertion noun Excessive exertion.
Overexpose transitive verb To expose excessively; specif. (Photog.) , to subject (a plate or film) too long to the actinic action of the light used in producing a picture. -- O`ver*ex*po"sure noun
Overexquisite adjective Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.
Overeye transitive verb
1. To superintend; to oversee; to inspect. [ Obsolete] 2. To see; to observe. [ Obsolete] Shak.
Overfall noun
1. A cataract; a waterfall. [ Obsolete] 2. (Nautical) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.
Overfatigue noun Excessive fatigue.
Overfatigue transitive verb To fatigue to excess; to tire out.
Overfeed transitive verb & i. [
imperfect & past participle Overfed ;
present participle & verbal noun Overfeeding .]
To feed to excess; to surfeit.
Overfierce adjective Excessively fierce.
overfill transitive verb To fill to excess; to surcharge.
Overfish transitive verb To fish to excess.
Overfloat transitive verb To overflow. [ R.] Dryden.
Overflourish transitive verb
1. To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier. 2. To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over. [ Obsolete] Shak.
Overflow transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Overflowed ;
present participle & verbal noun Overflowing .] [ Anglo-Saxon
oferfl...wan . See
Over , and
Flow .]
1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom.
Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
Overflow intransitive verb
1. To run over the bounds. 2. To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.
Overflow noun
1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon. 2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak. 3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
Overflow meeting , a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.
Overflowing noun An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject.
Macaulay.
Overflowingly adverb In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
Overflush transitive verb To flush to excess. [ R.]
Overflutter transitive verb To flutter over.
Overflux noun Overflow; exuberance. [ R.]
Overfly transitive verb [
imperfect Overflew ;
past participle Overflown ;
present participle & verbal noun Overflying .]
To cross or pass over by flight. Byron.
Overfond adjective Fond to excess. Milton. -- O"ver*fond"ly , adverb -- O"ver*fond"ness , noun
Overforce noun Excessive force; violence.
Overforward adjective Forward to excess; too forward. -- O"ver*for"ward*ness , noun
Overfree adjective Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar. -- O"ver*free"ly , adverb
Overfreight transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Overfreighted (
Overfraught , obsolete );
present participle & verbal noun Overfreighting .]
To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
Overfrequent adjective Too frequent.
Overfrieze transitive verb To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze. E. Hall.
Overfront transitive verb To confront; to oppose; to withstand. [ Obsolete] Milton.
Overfruitful adjective Too fruitful.
Overfull adjective [ Anglo-Saxon oferfull .] Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited. Shak.
Overfullness noun The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit.
Overgarrison transitive verb To garrison to excess.
Overgaze transitive verb To gaze; to overlook. [ Poetic] "Earth's o'ergazing mountains." Byron.
Overget transitive verb
1. To reach; to overtake; to pass. [ Obsolete] 2. To get beyond; to get over or recover from. [ R.]
Overgild transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon ofergyldan .] To gild over; to varnish.
Overgird transitive verb To gird too closely. [ R.]
Overgive transitive verb To give over; to surrender; to yield. [ Obsolete] Spenser.