Webster's Dictionary, 1913

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Overloud adjective Too loud; noisy.

Overlove transitive verb To love to excess.

Overluscious adjective Excessively luscious.

Overlusty adjective Too lusty, or lively. Shak.

Overly adjective
1. Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. [ Archaic] Bp. Hall.

2. Excessive; too much. [ R.] Coleridge.

Overly adverb In an overly manner. [ Archaic]

Overlying adjective Lying over or upon something; as, overlying rocks.

Overmagnify transitive verb To magnify too much. Bp. Hall.

Overmalapert adjective Excessively malapert or impudent. [ Obsolete] Prynne.

Overman noun ; plural - men
1. One in authority over others; a chief; usually, an overseer or boss.

2. An arbiter.

3. In the philosophy of Nietzsche, a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

Overmanner adverb In an excessive manner; excessively. [ Obsolete] Wiclif.

Overmarch transitive verb & i. To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

Overmast transitive verb (Nautical) To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.

Overmaster transitive verb To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.

Overmatch transitive verb
1. To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. Drayton.

2. To marry (one) to a superior. [ Obsolete] Burton.

Overmatch noun One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched. Milton. D. Webster.

Overmeasure transitive verb To measure or estimate too largely.

Overmeasure noun Excessive measure; the excess beyond true or proper measure; surplus.

Overmeddle transitive verb To meddle unduly.

Overmeddling noun Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling ." Fuller.

Overmellow adjective Too mellow; overripe.

Overmerit noun Excessive merit. Bacon.

Overmickle adjective & adverb Overmuch. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Overmix transitive verb To mix with too much.

Overmodest adjective Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly , adverb

Overmoist adjective Excessively moist. Bacon.

Overmoisture noun Excess of moisture.

Overmore adverb Beyond; moreover. [ Obsolete]

Overmorrow noun The day after or following to-morrow. [ Obsolete] Bible (1551).

Overmost adjective Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest. [ Obsolete] Fabyan.

Overmount transitive verb [ Confer Surmount .] To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.

Overmuch adjective Too much. -- adverb In too great a degree; too much. -- noun An excess; a surplus.

Overmuchness noun The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance. [ R.] B. Jonson.

Overmultiply transitive verb & i. To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often.

Overmultitude transitive verb To outnumber. [ Obsolete]

Overname transitive verb To name over or in a series; to recount. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Overneat adjective Excessively neat. Spectator.

Overnice adjective Excessively nice; fastidious. Bp. Hall. -- O"ver*nice"ly , adverb -- O"ver*nice"ness , noun

Overnight noun The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening. [ R.] Shak.

Overnight adverb In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight .

I had been telling her all that happened overnight .
Dickens.

Overnoise transitive verb To overpower by noise.

Overnumerous adjective Excessively numerous; too many.

Overoffice transitive verb To domineer over by virtue of office. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Overofficious adjective Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. Collier.

Overpaint transitive verb To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.

Overpamper transitive verb To pamper excessively; to feed or dress too much. Dryton.

Overpart transitive verb To give too important or difficult a part to. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Overpass transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overpassed ; present participle & verbal noun Overpassing .] [ Confer Surpass .]


1. To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.

2. To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.

All the beauties of the East
He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed .
Milton.

3. To surpass; to excel. [ R.] R. Browning.

Overpass intransitive verb To pass over, away, or off.

Overpassionate adjective Passionate to excess. -- O"ver*pas"sion*ate*ly , adverb