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.

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.

To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

To outflank.

Too wise; affectedly wise.

To outwit.

To say in too many words; to express verbosely.

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

To subdue by wrestling.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked.

Excess of zeal.

Too zealous.

The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.

One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undergo the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

Of or pertaining to an egg.

The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

Bearing eggs; oviferous.

See Ovine.

Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

An artificial division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara.

Generation by means of ova. See Generation.

Producing young from eggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.

To deposit or lay (an egg).

The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.

The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova. The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.

The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoon; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.

A believer in ovism. Same as Ovulist.

A germinal vesicle.

An uncommon name for riboflavin, also called vitamin B2.

A solid resembling an egg in shape.

Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.

A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.

That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

Yolk; egg yolk.