overblown 
overblown 1 (6-ver-blon'). p. a 
of over - 
' Ce ' 
Being seated, and domestic broils 
Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors, 
Make war upon themselves. 
Shak., Rich. III., ii. 
Led with delight, they thus beguile the way, 
Untill the blustring storme i - 1 " 
4196 
II. intrans. To build beyond the demand; 
build beyond one's means. 
overbulkt (6-ver-bulk'), v. t, To oppress by 
bulk; overtower; overwhelm. 
The seeded pride 
That hath to this maturity blown up t 
In rank Achilles must or now be cropp d, 
Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil, 
To overbulk us all. Shak., 1. and C., i. 3. 320. 
,,OVerburthen(6-ver-ber'dn,-Tnn), 
I. i. 10. 
2 In the Bessemer steel process, injured by 
the continuance of the blast after the carbon 
has been removed ; burnt. 
overblown 2 (6-ver-blon'),a. [Pp.of overblow*.) 
Past the time of blossoming or blooming; with- 
ered, as a flower. 
Thus overblown and seeded, I am rather 
Fit to adorn his chimney than his bed. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, iv. 1. 
His head was bound with pansies overblown. 
Shelley, Adonais, st. 33. 
overboard (6'ver-bord), adv. [< ME. overbord,< 
AS. ofer bord(=T>. overboard = Iee\.ofrbordh = orquarry: 
Dan. overbord), < ofer, prep., over, + bora, cava ti ng c j ay an d similar materials, 
board, side: see over an^ l ^ n rv "- rt 
fruit. 
But I neither wil for so plain a matter ourbtirden the 
reader in this boke, with the more manyfold then neces- 
sary rehersyng of euery place. Sir T. More, Works, p. 824. 
The overburdened mind 
Broke down ; what was a brain became a blaze. 
Browning, Ring and Book, L 93. 
overburden (6'ver-ber'dn), n, Detrital mate- 
overcloud 
5. To cast or compute at too high a rate; rate 
too high. 
The King in his accompt of peace and calmes did much 
over-cast his fortunes. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 17. 
6. In sewing, to fasten by stitching roughly 
through and over two edges of a fabric. Also 
overseam. 
And Miss Craydocke overcasted her first button-hole 
energetically. ' Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, ix. 
Overcast stitch, a stitch used to work the edges of raised 
pieces in appliqui! work or openings, such as eyelet-holes, 
and also to produce a raised ridge by covering with the 
stitch a cord or braid which is laid upon the foundation. 
II. intrans. To become cloudy or dull; be- 
come dark or gloomy. 
And they Indeed had no cause to mistrust ; 
But yet, you see, how soon the day o'ercast. 
SAfffr.,Rich. III., iii. 2. 88. 
Toward evening it begane to over-cast, and shortly after 
to raine. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 142, note. 
rial or rock which has to be removed, as being overcasting (6'ver-kas"ting), . 1. A book- 
of no value, in order to get at some valuable binders' method of oversewing, in hemstitch 
substance beneath, which it is intended to mine s tyl e , the edges of a section of single leaves, 
or quarry: used in reference to quarrying or ex- j t j g <} one to give the section the pliability of 
In its native state china clay generally occurs in exten- 
side of a ship, usually into the water; out of or give ma88e s beneath several feet of superstratum termed 
. *T. . - i- -" .,~*.~~~* overburden. The Engineer, LXVII. 171. 
overturn (6-ver-bern'), v. I. trans. 
burn too much or unduly. 
Take care you overburn not the turf ; it Is only to be 
burnt so as to make it break. Mortimer. 
2t. To cover with flames. Davies. 
II. intrans. To burn too much ; be overzeal- 
ous;'be excessive: as, overturning zeal. 
from on board a ship: as, to fall overboard. 
But the hert ful hastili hent hire vp in armes, 
And bare hire forth ouer-bord on a brod planke. 
WUliam of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2778. 
What though the mast be now blown overboard, 
The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost? 
The owners partly cheated, partly robbed of truth, de- 
spoiled of their rich fraight, and at last turned over-board 
into a sea of desperation. Bp. Hall, Best Bargain. 
To throw overboard, to throw out of a ship ; hence, to 
discard, desert, or betray._ 
overbody (6-ver-bod i), 
body to ; make too material 
Then was the priest set to con his motions and his pos- 
tures, his liturgies and his lurries, till the soul by this 
means of overbodying herself, given up justly to fleshly de- 
lights, bated her wing apace downward. 
' givei 
folded double leaves. 2. In sewing, oversew- 
ing two edges of a fabric by whipping them 
together. 
1. To catch up 
-, To overcatcht (o-ver-kach'), v. t 
with; overtake; reach. 
She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught, 
That in the very dore him overcaught. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. vii. 31. 
2. To outwit; deceive. 
For feare the Ducke with some odde craft the Goose 
might ouercateh. Breton, Strange Newes, p. 13. (Davies.) 
Bp. Halt, Best Bargain. ove rbusy (6-v6r-biz'i), a. Too busy; also, ob- overcharge (6-ver-charj'), v. t. [< ME. over- 
trusively officious, 
i. overbuy (6-ver-bT ),v.t. 1. Tol 
'. '-, T r <Lp ve n to mucl1 a rate ; pay too high a price for. 
rial. [Kare.J You bred him as my playfellow, 
1. To buy at too dear 
and he Is 
A man worth any woman, overbuys me 
Almost the sum he pays. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 1. 146. 
A wit is a dangerous thing in this age ; do not over-buy 
it. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
overbold (6-ver-bold'), a. Unduly bold ; bold 
to excess ; forward ; impudent. 
Have I not reason, beldams as you are, 
Saucy and overbold' Shak., Macbeth, iii. 5. 3. 
The island-princes over-bold 
Have eat our substance. 
Tennyson, Lotus-Eaters, Chonc Song. 
OVer-boundt (6'ver-bound), adv. Across. 
They went together lovingly and joyfully away, the 
greater ship towing the lesser at her stern all the way over- 
bound. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 124. 
overbowt (6-ver-bou'), v. t. To bow or bend OTerC apablet (6-ver-ka'pa-bl), a. 
over; bend too far in a contrary direction. or apt _ 
That old error . . . that the best way to straighten what Credulous and overcapable of such pleasing errors. 
is crooked is to overbow it. Fuller. Hooker. 
overbowed(6-ver-bod'),o. In archery, equipped overcare (6'ver-kar), n. 
with too strong a bow. anxiety. 
chargen;~< over + charge. Cf. overcark.'] 1. 
To charge or burden to excess; oppress; over- 
burden. 
The! were weri of-foujten and feor overcharged. 
Joseph ofArimathie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 552. 
Sometimes he calls the king, 
And whispers to his pillow as to him 
The secrets of his overcharged soul. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 376. 
They had not march'd long when Caesar discerns his 
OVerby(6-'v6r-bi'),' a a*>. [Sc. also owerby, o'erby; Legion sore overcharged. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
< over + by l .~\ A little way over; a little way 2. To put too great a charge in, as a gun. 
These dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass, 
Or like an overcharged gun, recoil, 
And turn the force of them upon thyself. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 881. 
3. To surcharge; exaggerate: as, to overcharge 
a statement. 
Characters, . . . both in poetry and painting, may be a 
little overcharged, or exaggerated. 
Goldsmith, Cultivation of Taste. 
4. To make an exorbitant charge against; de- 
mand an excessive price from. 
Here 's Gloucester, a foe to citizens, 
2. To buy to too great an extent. 
across. 
overcanopy (6-ver-kan'o-pi), v. t. To cover with 
or as with a canopy. 
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, 
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, 
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. 
Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 251. 
Too capable 
Excessive care or 
intrans. 
To 
. ver . kark ') 
overcark- 
overbur- 
brim: said of the vessel or cavity in which any BB ^^ r ne kny3t ^^ ne meyre 
liquid IS. Ouer-cark the comune. Fieri Plowman (C), iv. 472. 
Till the cup of rage o'erbrim. Coleridge. overcajvet (6-ver-karv' ), v. t. To carve or cut 
II. trans. To fill to overflowing; overfill. across- cross. 
The embelif orisonte, wrier as the pol is enhawsed upon 
the orisonte, overkervith the equinoxial in embelif angles. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. 26. 
Having a overcast (6-ver-kasf), " [< ME. overcasten (= 
, 
One that still motions war and never peace, 
O'ercharging your free purses with large fines. 
5. To make an extravagant charge or accusa- 
tion against. 
There cannot be a deeper atheism than to impute con- 
tradictions to God, neither doth any one thing so over- 
charge God with contradictions as the transubstantiation 
of the Roman church. Donne, Sermons, iv. 
Leading the way, young damsels danced along, . 
Each having a white wicker, overbrimmed 
With April's tender younglings. Keats, Endymion, i. 
over-brimmed (6-ver-brimd'), a. 
projecting or too large brim. 
An over-brimmed blue bonnet. Scott. 
overbrood (6-ver-brod'), v. t. To brood over; 
spread or be extended above, as if to protect or 
foster. 
dark, still wood ! 
And stiller skies that overbrood 
Your rest with deeper quietude I 
Whittier, Summer by the Lakeside. 
overbrow (6-ver-brou'), v. t. To hang over like 
a brow ; overhang. 
Where, tangled round the jealous steep, 
Strange shades o'frbrmp the vallies deep. 
Cottins, The Poetical Character. 
overbuild (6-ver-bild'), v. I. trans. 1. To 
cover, overhang, span, or traverse with a build- 
ing or structure ; build over. 
The other way Satan went down 
The causey to hell-gate ; on either side 
Disparted Chaos overbuilt exclaim'd, 
And with rebounding surge the bars assail'd. 
Milton, P. L., x. 416. 
2. To build more than the area properly ad- 
mits of, or than the population requires: as, 
that part of the town is overbuilt. 
Sw. ofverkasta = Dan. overkaste); < over + 
cost 1 .] I. trans. 1. To throw over or across. 
His folk went vpto lond, him seluen was the last, 
To bank ouer the sond, plankes thei ouer kast. 
Bob. of Branne, p. 70. 
2. To cover; overspread. 
The colour wherewith it overcasteth itself. 
Overcharged mine (miKt). See mine?. 
overcharge (6'ver-charj), n. [< overcharge, v.\ 
1. An excessive charge, load, or burden; the 
state of being overcharged. 
Thou art a shameless villain ; 
A thing out of the overcharge of nature, 
Sent, like a thick cloud, to disperse a plague 
Upon weak catching women. 
Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, T. 2. 
2. A charge, as of gunpowder or electricity, 
beyond what is necessary or sufficient. 3. A 
charge of more than is just ; a charge that is 
too high or exorbitant ; an exaction. 
over-chord (6'ver-kord), n. See major, 4 (/). 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. overc li m h (6-ver-klim'), v. t. To climb over. 
To cloud ; darken ; cover with gloom. This fatal gi thus omrclambe our walles, 
Stuft with arm'd men. Surrey, ^Eneid, ii. 
overcloset (6-ver-kloz'), v. t. [< ME. overclosen; 
< over + closel.] To close over; overshadow. 
This eclipse that ouer-closeth now the sonne. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 140. 
over-cloth (6'ver-kloth), . A blanket or end- 
less apron which conveys the paper to the press- 
rolls in a straw-paper machine. See blanket, 6. 
It is highly requisite that the paper be well pressed 
and dried on the cylinders of the press, and that the over- 
cloth be neither too dry nor too damp. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LIX. 81. 
Right so can geery Venus overcaste 
The hertes of hire folk, right as hire day 
Is gereful, right so chaungeth she array. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 678. 
The day with cloudes was snddeine overcast. 
Spenser, F. Q., 1. 1. 6. 
Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night; 
The starry welkin cover thou anon 
With drooping fog as black as Acheron. 
Shak., M. N. D., iii. 2.355. 
My Brain was o'ercastwtth a thick Cloud of Melancholy. 
Bowell, Letters, I. vi. 16. 
4. To cover with skin, as a wound ; hence, to 
have (a wound) healed. overcloud (o-ver-kloud' ), . t. To cover or over- 
See that . . . theredstag does not gaul you as it did sprea( j w jth clouds; hence, to cover with gloom, 
Diccon Thorburn, who never overcast the wound that he 
took from a buck's horn. Scott, Monastery, xiv. 
depression, or sorrow. 
