overcloud 
The l.llioilr of wicked men Is ... to ovrrrlmul Joy with 
sorrow at least, if not de&oliition. 
Altp. Laud, Sermons, p. 84. (Latham.) 
O'erclnuded with a constant frown. 
Courper, Conversation, 1. 339. 
overcloy (6-ver-kloi'), v. t. To eloy or fill be- 
yond satiety. 
Whom their o'er-clnyed country vomits forth 
To desperate ventures and assured destruction. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. :i. :i!8. 
overcoat (o'vor-kot), n. A coat worn overall 
the other dress ; a top-coat ; a greatcoat. 
overcoating (o'ver-ko-ting), n. [< overcoat + 
-ini/ 1 .] Stuff or material from which overcoats 
are made. 
overcolor, overcolour (6-ver-kul'or), >. t. To 
color to excess or too highly ; hence, to exag- 
gerate. 
Perhaps Mr. Fronde, who has the pen of a great artist, 
has somewhat over-coloured or overshaded both the bright- 
est and the darkest scenes. Edinburgh Rev., CXLV. 826. 
overcomable (6-vev-kum'a-bl), a. [ME. over- 
comabi/lle; < overcome + -able.'] That maybe 
overcome. Cath. Ant/., p. 263. 
overcome (6-ver-kum'), v. [< ME. ovcrcomen, 
oi-ercumcn, < AS. ofereuman (= D. MLG. over- 
komen = OHG. ubarqiteman, MHG. uberkomen, 
G. tiberkommen = Sw. ofrerkomma = Dan. over- 
born me), overcome, < ofer, over, + cuman, come : 
see over and come.] I. trans. If. To come over; 
move or pass over or throughout. 
Longe w'eie he sithen truer-cam. 
(Iriirxbt and Exodus (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1633. 
Can such things be, 
And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder? 
Shak., Macbeth, ill. 4. 111. 
2f. To reach or extend over or throughout; 
spread over; cover; overflow; surcharge. 
At length she came 
To an hillcs side, which did to her bewray 
A little valley subject to the same, 
AH covered with thick woodes that quite it overcame. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 4. 
Cains Marcius was 
A worthy officer i' the war ; but insolent, 
O'ercome with pride, ambitions past all thinking, 
Self-loving. Shot., Cor., iv. 6. 81. 
About his [Hector's] lips a fome 
Stood, aft when th' ocean is Inrag'd ; his eyes were overcome 
With fervor, and resembl'd flames, set off by his darke 
browes. Chapman, Iliad, xv. 
Th' unfallow'd glebe 
Yearly o'ercomes the granaries with stores 
Of golden wheat. J. Phttips, Cider, I. 
St. To overtake. 
If meadow be forward, be mowing of some, 
But mow as the makers may well overcome. 
Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, p. 16-2. 
4. To overwhelm; oppress; overpower; sur- 
mount; conquer; vanquish; subdue. 
Athre cunne wise he [Sathanas] vondl hyne bi-gon, 
As he vondede Adam and hyue ouer-com. 
Old Eng. Mix. (E. E. T. S.X p. 38. 
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 
Rom. xli. 21. 
In some things to be overcome is more honest and lauda- 
ble then to conquer. Milton, Elkonoklastes, ix. 
5. To get beyond; outstrip; excel. 
And migte no kynge overcome hym as bi kunnyngof speche. 
Piers Plowman (B), x. 449. 
They wound us with our own weapons, and with our 
owne arts and sciences they overcome us. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 14. 
There Is many a youth 
Now crescent, who will come to all I am, 
And overcome it. Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
=Syn. 4. Vanquish, Subdue, etc. See conquer. 
II. intrants. To gain the superiority ; be vic- 
torious; conquer. 
For in the Olde Testament it wa ordyned that whan 
on ovcrcomen he scholde be crowned with Palme. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 11. 
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in 
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with 
my Father in his throne. Rev. ill. 21. 
In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame; 
Henry the Fifth he first train 'd to the wars. 
Shale., IHen. VI., 1. 4. 78. 
OVercomer (6-ver-kum'er), n. One who over- 
comes, vanquishes, or surmounts. 
And than sail thou be sothef astly Jacob, and ouerganger 
and ouercommert of all synnes. 
Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. 
overcominglyt (6-ver-kum'ing-li), adv. In an 
overcoming or overbearing manner. 
That they should so boldly and overcamingly dedicate 
to him such things as are not fit. 
Dr. H. More, CouJ. Cabbala (166S), p. 7a 
over-confidence (6-ver-kon'fi-dens), n. The 
state of being over-confident ; excessive confi- 
dence. 
264 
4197 
over-confident (6-ver-kon'fi-dent). n. Confi- 
dent to exerts. 
over-confidently (o-ver-kon'fi-dent-li), n<lr. In 
an ovcr-roiiliili'iit manner, 
over-corrected (6*ver-ko-rek'ted),fl. In optic.*. 
See, correct, v., 5. 
OVercotmt (6-ver-kounf), r. t. 1. Torateabove 
the true value. 2. To outnumber. 
Well speak with thee at sea: at land thou know'nt 
How much we do o'er-count thee. 
Ulialr., A. and ('., II. 6. 26. 
overcover (6-ver-kuv'er), v. t. To cover over; 
cover completely. 
Shut me nightly in a charnel-house, 
O'er-cnver'd quite with dead men's rattling bones. 
Shak., R. and J., IT. 1. 82. 
overcrawt (o-ver-kra'), . t. Same as over- 
crow. Spenser, Shep. Cal., February. 
overcritict (6'ver-krit-ik), n. One who is criti- 
cal beyond measure or reason; a hypercritic. 
Let no Over-critick causlesly cavlll at this coat [of arms) 
as but a moderne bearing. Fuller, Worthies, Devon, 1. 431. 
overcrow (6-ver-kro'), r. t. To triumph over; 
crow over; overpower. 
O! Idle, Horatio; 
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit. 
Shale., Hamlet, v. 2. 364. 
overcrowd (6-ver-kroud'), v. t. To fill or crowd 
to excess, especially with human beings. 
overcup-oak (6'ver-kup-ok), n. 1. The bur- 
oak. See oak, 1. 2. The swamp post-oak. See 
pout-oak. 
over-curious (6-ver-ku'ri-us), o. Curious or 
nice to excess. 
overcurtain (6-ver-ker'tan), v. t. To cover; 
shadow; obscure. 
To see how sins o'ercurtained by night. 
Brathicayt, Nature's Embaasie. (Encyc. Dirt.) 
overdare (6-ver-dar'), r. I. intrans. To ex- 
ceed in daring; dare too much or rashly; be 
too daring. 
II. trans. To dishearten ; discourage ; daunt. 
Let not the spirit of &acldes 
Be over-dar'd, but make him know the mightiest Deities 
Stand kind to him. Chapman, Iliad, xx. 116. 
overdaring (6-ver-dSr'ing), a. Unduly or im- 
prudently bold; foolhardy; imprudently rash. 
The oner-daring Talbot 
Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour 
By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., IT. 4. 5. 
Could you not cure one, sir, of being too rash 
And over-daring? there, now, 's my disease; 
Fool hardy, as they say. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, ill. 1. 
overdark (6-ver-dark'), adv. Till after dark; 
after dark. [Rare.] 
Whitefleld would wander through Christ-Church mea- 
dows overdark. North British Rev. 
overdate (d-ver-daf), *> ' To date beyond the 
proper period; cause to continue beyond the 
proper date. 
Wlnnow'd and sifted from the chaff e of overdated Cere- 
monies. Milton, Reformation In Eng., I. 
overdealt (6'ver-del), n. Amount loft over; 
excess. 
The overdeal In the price will be double. Holland. 
overdedet, n. [ME., < over + dede, E. deed.] 
Overdoing; excess. 
Vor me ssel euremo habbe drede thet me ne mys-nyme 
be ouerdede [i. e., for they shall evermore have dread that 
they do not mistake by excess], 
Ayenbtte of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 56. 
overdedet, a- [ME., < overdede, n.] Excessive. 
Inne mete and inne drinke Ic habbe ibeo ouerdede. 
Old Eng. Mite. (E. E. T. S.), p. 19S. 
over-development (d'ver-de-vel'up-ment), . 
In photog., a development continued too long, 
or done with an excitant of too great strength. 
With under-exposed plates the result Is usually a harsh 
black-and-white picture without half-tones, or a badly 
stained film ; with over-exposed plates, flat or fogged pic- 
tures. 
overdightt (o-ver-dit')> Decked over; over- 
spread; covered over. 
And in the midst thereof a silver seat, 
With a thick Arber goodly over-dight. 
Spenser, If. Q., II. vii. 53. 
over-diligent (6-ver-dil'i-jent), a. Diligent to 
excess. 
over-discharge (o'ver-dis-charj'), n. The dis- 
charge of an accumulator or storage-battery 
beyond a certain limit: an operation which is 
generally injurious to the battery. 
overdo (6-ver-d6'), t 1 . [< ME. orerdon, < AS. 
oferdon (= OHG. ubartuon, 6er(a,MHG. iiber- 
tuon, G. iibertliun), do to excess, < ofer, oyer, + 
tl(~i, do : see do 1 .] I. trans. 1 . To do to excess ; 
hence, to overact; exaggerate. 
over-dreep 
In wedes and In wordes bothf 
The! nuerilnn hit day and njj-'lit. 
Piers Plmrman (<">, xiv. 191. 
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with 
this special observance, that you o'entep not the modesty 
of nature: for anything so overdone is from the ]. 
of playing. .SVmt., HamU-t, III. >.. -'_'. 
2. To carry beyond t!i' proper limit: MKT, 
prosecute, etc., too far. 
This business of keeping cent-shop* \tnnrilonr, like all 
other kinds of trade, handicraft, and Ixjdlly lalxir. I know 
It to my cost ! Hawthorne, Seven Gables, 111. 
3. To cook too much : ns, the mast is tin i '/;. 
4. To fatigue or harass by too much action 
or labor: usually reflexive or followed by it. 
Are there five boys in an average class of sixty In any of 
our public schools who can run half a mile In even three 
minutes and a half without being badly blown and look- 
ing aa If they had been overdoing Ihemselveit 
Barper't Mag., LXXIX. 242. 
5. To surpass or exceed in performance. 
Are yon she 
That over-did all ge with your honour. 
And In a little hour dare lose this triumph? 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, Ir. S. 
Resolute hungers 
Know neither fears nor faiths ; they tread on ladders, 
Ropes, gallows ; and overdo all dangers. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, II. 2. 
II. intrant. To do too much; labor too hard. 
Nature . . . much oftener overdoes than underdoes ; . . . 
you will find twenty eggs with two yolks for one that has 
none. S. drew. 
Fear still supererogates and overdoes. 
South, Sermons, VIII. vlll. 
overdoer (6-ver-d8'er), n. One who overdoes ; 
one who does more than is necessary or expe- 
dient. 
Do you know that the good creature was a Methodist In 
Yorkshire? These overdoers, my dear, are wicked wretches ; 
what do they but make religion look unlovely, and pat 
undcrdoers out of heart? 
Richardson, Sir Charles Orandison, V. 50. (Dames.) 
overdose (6'ver-dos), n. An excessive dose. 
overdose (6-ver-d6s')> '' ' To dose excessively. 
overdraft, overdraught (o'ver-draft), n. 1. 
(a) In furnaces of steam-boilers, and generally 
in domestic furnaces and stoves, a draft of air 
admitted over, and not passing through, the 
ignited fuel. (6) In kilns for bricks and tiles, 
a form of construction whereby the kiln is ' 
heated from the top toward the bottom. After 
a preliminary heating of the kiln, the stopping of upper 
and opening of lower chimney-connections compel the 
products of combustion first to ascend exterior flues, and 
then to pass over and down through the contents of the 
kiln, and to escape through lower chimney-connections. 
The overdraft consists of exterior flues leading from the 
furnace, extending upward to a chamber or chambers, or 
flues, over Ihe contents of the kiln, and there connected 
with the cmraney.flue, and also of other flues connecting 
the bottom of the kiln with the bottom of the chimney-flue 
or -flues. The term overdraft is also applied to the circula- 
tion, as described above, of the heated products of com- 
bustion ; and a kiln thus constructed is called an over- 
draft IcUn. 
2. The amount by which a draft exceeds the 
sum against which it is drawn ; a draft against 
a balance greater than the balance itself. 
overdraw (6-ver-dra'), '' I. trans. 1. To draw 
or strain too much. 
Mr. Addenbrooke has, we think, most decidedly over- 
drawn the bow in endeavouring to make out that we in 
this country are not after all so far in arrears in this branch 
of electrical engineering. Klectric Rev. (Eng.), XXV. 574. 
2. To draw upon for a larger sum than is due, 
or for a sum beyond one's credit : as, to over- 
draw one's account with a bank. 3. To exag- 
gerate in representation, either in writing, in 
speech, or in a picture : as, the tale of distress 
is overdrawn. 
II. intrans. To make an overdraft, 
overdraw (6'ver-dra), n. [< overdraw, c.] 1. 
An excessive draft or drain ; an undue or ex- 
hausting demand. 
There is such an overdraw on the energies of the indus- 
trial population [of France! that a large share of heavy 
labour Is thrown on the women. 
B. Spencer, Study of Soclol., p. 197. 
2. Same as overdraw-chetk. 
overdraw-check (6'yer-dra-chek), n. A check- 
rein or strap which in use passes over the poll 
of a horse, and connects the bit with the check- 
hook. It extends about half down In front of the horse's 
face, where It is divided into two branches, one fastened 
to each extremity of the bit. Its action Is not only to 
hold the animal's head up, but to keep the nose and head 
extended forward. 
overdredge (6-ver-drej'), c. t. To dredge too 
much for oysters, so as to injure the beds: as, 
the beds were overdredged. 
over-dreept, v. t. [< over + "dreep, var. of 
drip, drop: see drip and drop. Cf. overdrop.] 
To fall or droop over; overshadow. 
