Over-story noun (Architecture) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

Overslaugh noun [ Dutch overslag .] A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [ Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Overslaugh transitive verb [ Dutch overslaan .] To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment. [ Local Cant, U. S.]

Oversleep transitive verb To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.

Oversleep intransitive verb To sleep too long.

Overslide transitive verb To slide over or by.

Overslip transitive verb To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

Overslop noun [ Anglo-Saxon oferslop .] An outer garment, or slop. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Overslow transitive verb To render slow; to check; to curb. [ Obsolete] Hammond.

Overslow adjective Too slow.

Oversman noun ; plural Oversmen

1. An overseer; a superintendent.

2. (Scots Law) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.

Oversnow transitive verb To cover with snow, or as with snow. [ Poetic] Shak. Dryden.

Oversoon adverb Too soon. Sir P. Sidney.

Oversorrow transitive verb To grieve or afflict to excess. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Oversoul noun The all- containing soul. [ R.]

That unity, that oversout , within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other.

Emerson.

Oversow transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon ofersawan .] To sow where something has already been sown. [ R.]

His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat.

Matt. x...ii. 25. (Douay Version).

Overspan transitive verb To reach or extend over.

Overspeak transitive verb & i. [ Anglo-Saxon ofersprecan .] To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.

Overspin transitive verb To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly. W. Cartwright.

Overspread transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overspread ; present participle & verbal noun Overspreading .] [ Anglo-Saxon ofersprǣdan .] To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. Chaucer.

Those nations of the North
Which overspread the world.

Drayton.

Overspread intransitive verb To be spread or scattered over.

Overspring transitive verb To spring or leap over.

Overstand transitive verb To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [ Obsolete]

What madman would o'erstand his market twice ?

Dryden.

Overstare transitive verb To outstare. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Overstare intransitive verb To stare wildly. [ Obsolete] Ascham.

Overstate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overstated ; present participle & verbal noun Overstating .] To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. Fuller.

Overstatement noun An exaggerated statement or account.

Overstay transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overstayed or Overstaid ; present participle & verbal noun Overstaying .] To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time. Bp. Hall.

Overstep transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overstepped ; present participle & verbal noun Overstepping .] [ Anglo-Saxon ofersteppan .] To step over or beyond; to transgress. Shak.

Overstock noun Stock in excess. Tatler.

Overstock transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overstocked ; present participle & verbal noun Overstocking .] To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.

Overstore transitive verb To overstock. Sir. M. Hale.

Overstrain intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overstrained ; present participle & verbal noun Overstraining .] To strain one's self to excess. Dryden.

Overstrain transitive verb To stretch or strain too much; as to overstrain one's nerves. Ayliffe.

Overstraitly adverb Too straitly or strictly. [ Obsolete] Sir W. Raleigh.

Overstraw transitive verb To overstrew. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Overstrew transitive verb To strew or scatter over.

Overstrict adjective Excessively strict.

Overstride transitive verb To stride over or beyond.

Overstrike transitive verb To strike beyond. [ Obsolete]

Overstrow transitive verb See Overstrew .

Overstudious adjective Too studious.

Oversubtile adjective Excessively subtile.

Oversum noun A sum or quantity over; surplus. [ Obsolete] Holinshed.

Oversupply transitive verb To supply in excess.

Oversupply noun An excessive supply.

A general oversupply or excess of all commodities.

J. S. Mill.

Oversure adjective Excessively sure.

Oversway transitive verb To bear sway over.

Overswell transitive verb & i. To swell or rise above; to overflow. [ R.] Shak.

Overt adjective [ Old French overt , French ouvert , past participle of Old French ovrir , French ouvrir , to open, of uncertain origin; confer Italian aprire , OIt. also oprire , Latin aperire to open, operire to cover, deoperire to uncover. Perch. from Latin aperire influenced by French couvrir to cover. Confer Aperient , Cover .]

1. Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.

Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise.

Bacon.

2. (Law) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason. Macaulay.

No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

Constitution of the U. S.

» In criminal law, an overt act is an open done in pursuance and manifestation of a criminal design; the mere design or intent not being punishable without such act. In English law, market overt is an open market; a pound overt is an open, uncovered pound.

Overtake transitive verb [ imperfect Overtook ; past participle Overtaken ; present participle & verbal noun Overtaking .]

1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good.

Gen. xliv. 4.

He had him overtaken in his flight.

Spenser.

2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

If a man be overtaken in a fault.

Gal. vi. 1

I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children.

Shak.

3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle ( overtaken ), drunken. [ Obsolete] Holland.