OVE 
OVER-BOARD denotes the {tate of being thrown out 
of a thip or boat into the water on which fhe fwims ; alfo 
the a& of falling con fuch a veffel into the ee ea as the 
fhip fprung a-leak, and obliged us to throw th over- 
board ; or, a heavy fea broke over the deck, a pee two 
of our men over-board. 
OVERBURY, Sir Tuomas, in Biography, an Englith 
gen‘leman, was defended from an ancient family at A fhton- 
under. Edge. in Gloucefterfhire. He was Sone in 1581, at 
the houfe oF a cnceadl relation in Warwickinue, and after 
country, he was entered as a gentleman commoner of Queen’s 
elle. Oxford. From this place he removed to the Middle 
Temple for the ftudy of the law, to which profeffion his 
father belonged, but not having a tafte for legal purfuits he 
his for tune at court. 
r. Overbury was knighted, and his raed raifed to the 
enous of being a Welth judg dge. ‘This was in the year 1608, 
and in the following year fir Thomas made a tour on the con- 
tinent, and on his return publifhed ‘* Obfervations on what 
he had feen.”’ It was not likely that his principles fhould 
be pure while conne‘ted with a licentious court ; and accord- 
ingly it appears that he aflifted his friend and patron Carr, 
then lord Rochefter, in his amorous correfpondence with the 
pofed the marriage of the two ag ei for which 
curred the hatred of them both mpt was now made 
to remove fir Thomas to a diftance from the court by ap- 
pointing him to a foreign embaffy, but he es com- 
pliance ; and upon the ground of his refufal to undertake 
riftnefs of his imprifonment, contrary to 
the ufual praGtice in fuch cafes. By his procurement, and 
that of his countefs, poifon was adminiftered to him while 
d in extreme torture on the r5th of 
with feveral others, were condemned and execut 
and the lady, at that time the earl and countefs of Somerfet, 
were alfo convicted and condemned, but were pardoned. 
Sw Thomas, though by no means a biamelefs character, 
was lamented as a victim to the paffions of a moft abandoned 
pair. He was author of feveral pieces in profe and verie. 
The poem entitled “The Wife,’’ defcribing the character of 
3. Biog. Britannica. In this work 
there isa long and very detailed account of the methods 
ufed to deftroy fir Thomas Overbury. 
R-CAST-STAFF, is a fcale or meafure, ufed by 
fhipwrights, to determine the difference between the curves 
of thofe timbers which are placed near the greatel breadth, 
and thofe which are fituated near the extremities of the keel, 
where ar ftoor rifes and grows narrower. 
ONE, in the Manege, in French, le A 
horfe is jai to be over-don utré, when his wind and 
ftrength are broke and exhnited anh fatigue 
OVER. , or TUMBLING-BAY, in Geography, is 
part of the tide of a canal, or relervoir, over which the ae 
runs away, or efcapes, when it is too high.—Alfo, the 
OVE 
“pper gates or fluices of opening weirs are called over. 
OVERFLAKEE, Over-Fracqurs, or Zuidvorn, an 
ifland of Holland, on the Meufe, about 13 miles long from 
. to W., and four in its greateft breadth. ‘The firft name 
re oe from a fand-bank, called * Flacque” or * Flakee,’’ 
which lies in the ftream N. of the ifland, and the laf from its 
fituation with refpe& to the ifle of Voorn, from which it ia 
about ae miles Siftant to the fouth. N. lat. 51° 43. E, 
lang. 4° 
SVEREL AX, a town of. Sweden, in the goverament 
of Wafa; fix wiles N. of Wafa. 
OVER-FLOWING, or Inunpation of Land. See 
Irrigation, Flooding of Lanp, a nae Whee Land.. 
R-GROWN, in Sea Lan hen the waves 
of the fea grow high, the failors call it a Jea s but when 
the furges and billows grow vaftly high, then it is an over- 
grown fea. 
OVER- HANGING, i in Ship Building, projecting over ; 
as the ftern is faid to overhang when it rakes much. 
OVER-HAUL, in Sea Language. A rope is faid tobe 
ila when drawn too ftiff, or baled the contrary 
5 
Cee the Runner. See RUNNER. 
OvER-HAUL the Sheet. See SHEET. 
OVER-HAULING denotes the a& of opening and 
extending the feveral parts of a canner or other affemblages 
of ropes, communicating with blocks or dead-eyes. It is 
ufed to remove thofe blocks to a fnfficient diftance from each 
other, that they may be again placed in a ftate of ation, fo 
as to produce the effe@ required. 
OVER-HAULING is alfo vulgarly expreffed of an ex- 
a or infpection into the condition of a perfon or 
OVERISSEL, in Geography, a department of Hol- 
land, which was one o e feven united Dutch ftates, 
bounded on the N. by Groningen and Freifland, on the E; 
by the bifhopric of Munfter and county of Bentheim, on the 
S. by Guelderland, and on the W. by the Zuyder See. The 
foil, except towards the a +» where are fome corn-lands and 
paftures, is generally m 
land is moftly co 
tained Brn: rty. 
meadows, which yield a e whole country is 
at and low, excepting merely a ie er runs through it 
from N.to S. It is divided into three a viz. Salland, 
Twent, and Vollenhoven ; to which may be added Drent 
fle 
werden in Drent. The chief rivers are the Iffel and 
cht. 
OVER-LAND Fary, in Agriculture, a os word 
ufed to fignify a parcel of land without a houfe to 
OVER-LAUNCH, in Ship Building, to run the butt of 
one plank to a certain diftance beyond the next butt above 
er beneath it, in order to make ftronger 
OVER-LAYING of Children, may os Geeta by a 
machine called arcuccio. 
ASTED, in Sea regs — the ftate 
of a fhip, whofe mafts are too high, or too heavy for the 
weight of her hull to gi dapsea 
R-RAK Bil ses a oe riding at anchor, fo 
over-beats herfelf into a head-fea, that fhe 1s wafhed by the 
waves breaking in ones her ; they fay, the waves over-rake 
her. 
OVER-REACH, inthe Manege, 1s when a horfe ftrikes 
his hind-feet againit his fore. The 
