sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together.
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Having excessive sexual desire or appeal.
To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.
One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything.
Overshadowing.
To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.
To shine over or upon; to illumine.
A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galosh.
To fly beyond the mark.
Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower; -- said of the jaws of some dogs.
Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
simplified excessively so as to distort or misrepresent; -- of facts, assertions, or communications. Contrasted with overcomplicated.
to simplify excessively so as to distort or misrepresent; -- of facts, assertions, or communications; as, Don't oversimplify the rules.
To cover with viscid matter.
To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.
An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.
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.
To sleep too long.
To slide over or by.
To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.
An outer garment, or slop.
Too slow.
An overseer; a superintendent.
To cover with snow, or as with snow.
Too soon.
To grieve or afflict to excess.
The all-containing soul.
To sow where something has already been sown.
To reach or extend over.
To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.
To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly.
To be spread or scattered over.
To spring or leap over.
To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions.
To stare wildly.
To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.
represented as greater than is true or reasonable; exaggerated; as, They made overstated accusations of corruption.
An exaggerated statement or account.
To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time; to overstay one's welcome.
To step over or beyond; to transgress; as, to overstep the bounds of propriety.
To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
To overstock.
To stretch or strain too much; as, to overstrain one's nerves.
Too straitly or strictly.
To overstrew.
To strew or scatter over.
Excessively strict.
To stride over or beyond.
To strike beyond.
See Overstrew.
Too studious.
Excessively subtle.
A sum or quantity over; surplus.
An excessive supply; a supply in excess of demand.
Excessively sure.
To bear sway over.
To swell or rise above; to overflow.
To talk to excess.
To task too heavily.
To tax or to task too heavily; as, a job that overtaxed his physical energies.
Too tedious.
To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance.
The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrown; ruin.
To cross; to oppose.
In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely.
The state of being overthwart; perverseness.
To tilt over; to overturn.
Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.
To become too tired.
To give too high a title to.
Publicly; openly.
To weary excessively; to exhaust.
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or /partial/ tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.
To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.
To soar too high.
To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market.
The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.
To tread over or upon.
To trip over nimbly.
Excessively troubled.
To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much.
To trust too much.
To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.
Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
One who overturns.
Excessive use.
Same as overutilization.
Same as overutilize.
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns.
To exploit to the point of diminishing returns; to use excessively.
See Overveil.
Having or showing undue valor or boldness; as, they stepped with overvaliant airs.
Excessive valuation; overestimate.
To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.
To veil or cover.
An inspection or overlooking.
To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.
To walk over or upon.
To defeat.
Too wary; too cautious.
To overflow.
Wasted or worn out; consumed; spent
To watch too much.
To wax or grow too rapidly or too much.
Too weak; too feeble.
Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as overcoats, wraps, etc.
To weary too much; to tire out.
Excessively weary; very tired; exhausted.
To expose too long to the influence of the weather.
To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to be egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume.
One who overweens.
Conceit; arrogance.
To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.
Overweighing; excessive.
To overflow.
Excessive wetness.
The act of overwhelming.
same as overpowered.
Overpowering; irresistible.
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