Override transitive verb [ imperfect Overrode ; past participle Overridden , Overrode , Overrid ; present participle & verbal noun Overriding .] [ Anglo-Saxon offerīdan .]
1. To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.

The carter overridden with [ i. e. , by] his cart.

Chaucer.

2. To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto.

3. To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. [ Obsolete]

I overrode him on the way.

Shak.

4. To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.

Overrigged adjective Having too much rigging.

Overrighteous adjective Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.

Overrigid adjective Too rigid; too severe.

Overrigorous adjective Too rigorous; harsh.

Overripe adjective Matured to excess. Milton.

Overripen transitive verb To make too ripe. Shak.

Overroast transitive verb To roast too much. Shak.

Overrule transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overruled ; present participle & verbal noun Overruling .]
1. To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.

2. To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order.

His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.

Clarendon.

These [ difficulties] I had habitually overruled .

F. W. Newman.

3. (Law) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.

Overrule intransitive verb To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules . Shak.

Overruler noun One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.

Overruling adjective Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly , adverb

Overrun transitive verb [ imperfect Overran ; past participle Overrun ; present participle & verbal noun Overrunning . ]
1. To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.

Those barbarous nations that overran the world.

Spenser.

2. To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.

Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

2 Sam. xviii. 23.

3. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

» In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.

4. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

None of them the feeble overran .

Spenser.

5. (Print.) (a) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before. (b) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.

Overrun intransitive verb
1. To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.

Despised and trodden down of all that overran .

Spenser.

2. (Print.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns .

Overrunner noun One that overruns. Lovelace.

Oversaturate transitive verb [ Confer Supersaturate .] To saturate to excess.

Oversay transitive verb To say over; to repeat. Ford.

Overscented adjective
1. Scented excessively.

2. Covered or concealed by a different odor. Fuller.

Overscrupulosity noun Overscrupulousness.

Overscrupulous adjective Scrupulous to excess.

Overscrupulousness noun The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.

Oversea adjective Beyond the sea; foreign.

Oversea, Overseas adverb Over the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson.

Oversearch transitive verb To search all over.

Overseason transitive verb To season too highly.

Oversee transitive verb [ imperfect Oversaw ; past participle Overseen ; present participle & verbal noun Overseeing .] [ Anglo-Saxon oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over , and See .]

1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

2. To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.

Oversee intransitive verb To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [ Obsolete]

The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee .

Fuller.

Your partiality to me is much overseen , if you think me fit to correct your Latin.

Walpole.

Overseer noun One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

Overseership noun The office of an overseer.

Oversell transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Oversold ; present participle & verbal noun Overselling . ]
1. To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.

One whose beauty
Would oversell all Italy.

Beau. & Fl.

2. To sell beyond means of delivery. [ Brokers'Cant]

Oversold market (Brokers' Cant) , a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold "short" to such an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery.

Overset transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overset ; present participle & verbal noun Oversetting . ]
1. To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

2. To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot. Addison.

3. To fill too full. [ Obsolete] Howell.

Overset intransitive verb To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer.

Overset noun
1. An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

2. An excess; superfluity. [ Obsolete] "This overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel.

Overshade transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon ofersceadwian . See Over , and Shade , and confer Overshadow .] To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

Overshadow transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overshadowed; present participle & verbal noun Overshadowing . ] [ Confer Overshade . ]
1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.

There was a cloud that overshadowed them.

Mark ix. 7.

2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.

Overshadower noun One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

Overshadowy adjective Overshadowing. [ R.]

Overshake transitive verb To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Overshine transitive verb
1. To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak.

2. To excel in shining; to outshine. Shak.

Overshoe noun A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

Overshoot transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overshot ; present participle & verbal noun Overshooting .]
1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South.

2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle.

3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper.

To overshoot one's self , to venture too far; to assert too much.

Overshoot intransitive verb To fly beyond the mark. Collier.

Overshot adjective From Overshoot , transitive verb

Overshot wheel , a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its we'ght.

Overshot adjective (Zoology) Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower; -- said of the jaws of some dogs.

Oversight noun
1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker.

3. Escape from an overlooked peril. [ R.] "His fool-happy oversight ." Spenser.

Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking; inadvertence; neglect; mistake; error; omission.

Oversize transitive verb To surpass in size.

Overskip transitive verb To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference. Shak.

Overskirt noun An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.