overwind 
loaded. Overwinding is a fruitful source of danger in 
mining, and many expedients have been adopted for its 
prevention. 
overwing (6-ver-wing'), ' * 1. To fly over 
or beyond. 
My happy love will overwing all bounds. 
Keats, Endymion, ii. 
2. To outflank; extend beyond the wing of, as 
an array. 
Agricola, doubting to be overwinged, stretches out his 
front, though somewhat of the thinnest. 
Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
overwise (6-ver-wIz'), a. Too wise ; affectedly 
wise. 
Be not righteous over much ; neither make thyself over 
,,. EccL. vii. 16. 
And Willy's wife has written ; she never was over-wise, 
Never the wife for Willy. Tennyson, Grandmother. 
overwisely (6-ver-wiz'li), adv. In an affectedly 
wise manner; wisely to affectation. 
overwiseness (6-ver-wiz'nes), . Pretended or 
affected wisdom. 
Tell wisdom, she entangles 
Herself in ocerwiseness. Raleigh, The Lie. 
overwitt (6-ver-wif ), v. t. To overreach in wit 
or craft ; outwit. Swift, Answer to Paulus. 
overwoody (o-ver-wud'i), a. Producing branch- 
es rather than fruit ; running to wood. 
Fruit-trees over-woody reach'd too far 
Their pamper'd boughs, and needed hands to check 
Fruitless embraces. Milton, P. L., v. 213. 
overword (6'ver-werd), n. The leading idea 
or a repeated phrase, as of a song or ballad; 
the refrain ; burden. 
And aye the o'erword o' the sang 
Was "Your love can no win here." 
The Gay Ooss-Hawk (Child's Ballads, III. 279). 
Prudence is her o'erword aye. 
Burns, Oh Poortith Cauld, and Restless Love. 
OVerwordt (6-ver-werd'), t. To express in too 
many words: sometimes used reflexively. 
Describing a small fly, . . . he extremely overworded and 
overepake himself in his expression of it, as if he had 
spoken of the Nemean Lion. 
Hales, Golden Remains, p. 229. 
overwork (6'ver-werk), n. [< ME. oferwerc, < 
AS. ofenoeorc, ofergeweorc, a superstructure 
(as a tomb), < ofer, over, + weorc, gcweorc, a 
work: see over and work, n.~\ If. A super- 
structure. 
Oferr thatt arrke wass 
An oferwerrc [the mercy-seat) wel limmbredd. 
Ormidum, 1. 1085. 
2. Excessive work or labor ; work or labor that 
exceeds the strength or capacity of the indi- 
vidual or endangers his health. 3. Work done 
beyond the amount stipulated; work done in 
overhours or overtime. 
overwork (6-ver-werk'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
overworked, overwrought, ppr. overworking. [= 
D. overwerken; as over + work, v.~\ To cause 
to work too hard; cause to labor too much; 
impose too much work upon ; wear out by over- 
work : often used reflexively. 
Seeing my maister so continually to chide me, ... so 
to overworke me, and so cruelly to deale with me, ... I 
desired him oftentimes that it might please him to sell 
mee, or else to glue order to kill me. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 143. 
overwqrry (6-ver-wur'i), n. Excessive worry 
or anxiety. 
The whole train of nervous diseases brought on by over- 
work or overworry. The Century, XXIX. 514. 
OVerwrest (6-ver-resf), v. t. To distort ; wrest 
out of proper position, relation, or semblance. 
Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming 
He acts thy greatness in. Shak., T. and C. , i. a 157. 
overwrestle (6-ver-res'l), v. t. To subdue by 
wrestling. 
At last, when life recover'd had the raine, 
And over-wrestled his strong enimy. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 24. 
overwrite (6-ver-rIf), v. t. 1. To write over 
some other writing, or to cover, as a manu- 
script, with other writing. 
This (MS. of the Gospel of St. Matthew] was cut to 
pieces . . . and another Book overwritten in a small Mod- 
ern Greek Hand, about 160 years ago. 
Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 108. 
2. To superscribe ; entitle. 
Tis a tale indeed ! . . . and is overwritten, the Intrica- 
cies of Diego and Julia. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 1. 
overwrought (6-ver-rat'),.p. 1. Worked too 
hard or too much. 2. Worked up or excited to 
excess; overexcited: as, overwrought feelings, 
imagination, etc. 
It may be my lord is weary, tliat his brain is overwrought. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
4210 
3. Worked all over ; covered with decorative 
work : as, a garment overwrought with embroi- 
dered flowers. 
Of Gothic structure was the Northern side, 
O'erwrought with ornaments of barbarous pride. 
Pope, Temple of Fame, 1. 120. 
4. Labored or elaborated to excess; over- 
done. 
A work may be overwrought as well as underwrought ; 
too much labour often takes away the spirit by adding to 
the polishing. 
Drydm, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting. (Latham.) 
overwryt,f t. [ME. overwrien, overwrigen, cover 
over; < over + wry 1 , cover.] To cover over. 
A roten swerd and welny blaake, it selve 
Suffysing wel with graas to ouenvrie, 
And tough to glue ayein though thowe it delve. 
PaUadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 3. 
overyear (6'ver-yer'), adv. Over the year; 
until next year. 
Overyear (6'ver-yer), a. [< overyear, adv.'] 
Kept over until next year : as, an overyear bul- 
lock. See the quotation. [Prov. Eng.] 
Bullocks which are not finished at three years old, if 
home-breds, or the first winter after buying, if purchased, 
but are kept through the ensuing summer to be fatted 
the next winter, are said to be kept over-year, and are 
termed over-year bullocks. Halliwell. 
overyeart (6-ver-yer'), v. t. To keep over or 
through the year; make too old; make over- 
ripe. 
Sir, the letters that you hane to sende, and the daugh- 
ters that you haue to marrie, care ye not to leaue them 
farre oner yeared: for in our countrie they do not over 
yeare other things than their bacon, which they will eate, 
and their store wine, which they will drinke. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1677X p. 52. 
There is not a proverb salts your tongue, but plants 
Whole colonies of white hairs. Oh, what a business 
These hands must have, when you have married me, 
To pick out sentences that over-year you ! 
T. Tomkis (?), Albumazar, iv. 13. 
Among them dwelt 
A maid whose fruit was ripe, not overyeared. 
Fairfax. 
overzealedt (6-ver-zeld' ), a. Too much excited 
with zeal ; actuated by too much zeal. Fuller, 
Holy War, p. 214. 
ovest, n.pl. An obsolete variant of eaves. 
The nyght crowe abideth in old walles. And the sparowe 
maketh his restynge place In the coverynge of an house or 
in the house oves. 
Bp. Fisher, Seven Penitential Psalms, Ps. cxliii. 1. 
Ovibos (o'vi-bos), n. [NL., a combination of 
the two generic words Ovis and -Bos; < L. ovis, a 
sheep, + bos, an ox: see Ovis and Bos.'] The 
only genus of Ovibovince extant, with one living 
species, 0. moschatus, the musk-ox. 
Ovibovinse (6"vi-b6-vl'ne), n. pi. [ NL., < Ovi- 
bos (-bov-) -r -MMC. j A subfamily of Bovidce, in- 
termediate in character between sheep and 
oxen; the musk-oxen. They have narrow molars 
with supplementary tubercles, and abroad flat basioccipi- 
t nl bone ridged and fossate on each side. There is but one 
extant genus, Ovibos. See cut under musk-ox. 
OVibovine (6-vi-bo'vin), a. and n. [< L. ovis, a 
sheep, + bovinus, of an ox : see ovine and bovine. 
Cf. Ovibovince.'] I. a. Ovine and bovine, or 
like a sheep and an ox ; of or pertaining to the 
Ovibovince. 
II. n. An ovibovine animal, as the musk-ox. 
ovicapsular (6-vi-kap'su-lar), a. [< ovicapsule 
+ -ar 3 .] Of or pertaining to an ovicapsule: 
as, ovicapsular epithelium. 
ovicapsule (6-vi-kap'sul), n. [< L. ovum, an 
egg, + capsula, dim. of capsa, a box: see cap- 
sule.'] ATI egg-case; an ovisac; a capsule of 
an individual ovum, answering to what is called 
a Graafian follicle in the human species, or a 
case of several ova. See cut under mermaid's- 
purse. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 380. 
ovicell (o'vi-sel), n. [< L. ovum, an egg, + cella, 
a cell : see cell.'] 1 . The oocyst of a polyzoan ; 
a dilatation of the body-wall of the polypid, in 
which the germs may undergo early stages of 
their development. 2. An early state of the 
ampullaceous sacs in sponges. H. J. Carter. 
OVicellular (6-vi-sel'u-lar), a. [< ovicell, after 
cellular.] Pertaining to an ovicell; oScystic: 
as_, the ovicellular dilatation of a polyzoan. 
OVicide (6'vi-sld), n. [< L. ovis, a sheep, + -cidi- 
um, < ccedere, kill.] Sheep-slaughter. [Humor- 
ous.] 
There it fa dog] lay the little sinister-looking tail im- 
pudently perked up, like an infernal gnomon on a Satanic 
dial-plate Larceny and Ovicide shone in every hair of it. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 364. 
OVicyst (6'vi-sist), n. [< L. ovum, an egg, + 
Gr. KVOTIC, a pouch : see cyst.] In ^Ascidia, the 
pouch in which incubation takes place ; a diver- 
tieulum of the wall of the atrium, which pro- 
Ovinae 
jects into the atrial cavity, and into which is 
received the ovarian follicle containing an im- 
pregnated ovum. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 533. 
OVicystic (6-vi-sis'tik), a. [< oticyst + -ic.] 
Pertaining to the ovicyst or incubatory pouch 
of an ascidian. 
Ovidas (6'vi-de), n. pi. [NL., < Ovis + -idee.'] 
Sheep and goats as a family of ruminants apart 
from Bovidce. Capridai is a synonym. See Ovi- 
nce. 
Ovidian (o-vid'i-an), a. [< L. Ovidius, Ovid 
(see def.), + -aw.] Belonging to or character- 
istic of the Latin poet Ovid (Publius Ovidius 
Naso), born 43 B. c., died A. D. 17. 
OViducal (6'vi-du-kal), a. [< L. ovum, an egg, 
+ ducere, lead : see duct.'] Having the charac- 
ter of an oviduct ; pertaining in any way to ovi- 
ducts ; oviducent : as, an ovidiical tube ; ovidu- 
cal arteries or veins ; oviducal gestation. 
The oviducal veins : two or three vessels entering . . . 
(in the female) immediately behind the dorso-lumbar vein. 
Huxley and Martin, Elem. Biol., p. 83. 
oviducent (6'vi-du-sent), a. [< L. ovum, an 
egg, + ducen( t-)s, ppr'.' of ducere, lead : see duct."] 
Same as oviducal. 
Oviduct (6'vi-dukt), n. [< NL. ovidudus, < L. 
ovum, egg, + ductus, a leading, duct : see duct."] 
The excretory duct of the female genital gland, 
or female gonaduct ; a passage for the ovum or 
egg from the ovary of an animal : chiefly applied 
to such a structure in an oviparous animal, not 
differentiated into Fallopian tube, womb, and 
vagina. An oviduct exists in most vertebrates, and is 
usually paired, there being one to each ovary, but often 
single, the duct of one or the other side remaining unde- 
veloped, as in birds. When well formed, as in birds and 
other animals which lay large eggs to be hatched outside 
the body, the oviduct is a musculomembranous tube or ca- 
nal, of which one end is in relation with or applied to the 
ovary, and the otherdebouches in the cloaca, the tube being 
held in place by a special mesentery or mesometrlum. In 
the course of the oviduct its mucous membrane acquires 
special characteristics, and secretes different substances ; 
so that the ovum, escaping from the ovary as a ball of yel- 
low yolk, becomes successively coated with white albu- 
men, with a soft egg-pod, and finally, as in birds, with a 
hard chalky shell. The oviducts of the lowest mammals, 
which are oviparous, are of similar character ; but in most 
mammals the pair of oviducts coalesce in the greater part 
of their length, whence result a single vagina and womb, 
with a pair of Fallopian tubes or oviducts in a restricted 
sense. A womb or uterus is simply a specialized part 
of an oviduct, where the ovum is detained long enough to 
be developed into a fetus and born alive. The oviducts of 
invertebrates, where any exist, are as diverse in character 
as the ovaries. See ocaryl, and cuts under Dendrocoela, 
Dibranchiata, Epizoa, and f/ermarium. 
oviferous (o-vif'e-rus), a. [< L. ovum, an egg, 
+ ferre = E. beari."] Bearing eggs ; ovigerous : 
specifically applied to certain receptacles into 
which ova are taken upon their escape from the 
ovary, as in some crustaceans. 
oviform 1 (6'vi-f6rm), a. [< L. ovum, egg, + 
forma, form.] 1. Egg-shaped ; ovaliform. spe- 
cifically (a) In entom., shaped like an egg; having the 
longitudinal section ovate and the transverse circular : as, 
an ovtform terminal joint of an antenna, (b) In ichth., 
having an oval lateral outline or profile, in which the great- 
est height or depth is in advance of the middle, as in the 
opah and other fishes, (c) In decorative art, having the 
greater or more important part egg-shaped : as, an ovtform 
vase or pitcher (one which has the body of this form). 
2. Having the morphological character of an 
ovum. 
oviform 2 (6'vi-form), a. [< L. ovis, sheep, + 
forma, form.] Sheep-like ; ovine. 
ovigenous (o-vij'e-nus), a. [< L. ovum, egg, + 
-genus, producing: see -genous.] Giving rise to 
an ovum ; producing ova, as the ovary : as, an 
ovigenous organ. 
ovigerm (6'vi-jerm), n. [< L. ovum, egg, + E. 
germ.'] An ovum. 
The ovigenns, with their germinal vesicles and spots. 
Darwin, Cirripedia, p. 58. 
ovigerous (6-vij'e-rus), a. [< L. ovum, egg, + 
gerere, cany.] Bearing ova or eggs ; oviferous. 
Ovigerous" frenum. a process projecting on each side 
from the inner wall of the sac of a cirriped, serving to stick 
the eggs together till they hatch. Uuxley, Auat. Invert, 
p. 257. See cut under Balanus. 
Ovina (o-vi'na), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of LL. 
ovinus, pertaining to sheep : see ovine.] Ovine 
animals, including sheep and goats: same as 
Ovidce. See Ovince, Caprince. 
Ovina! (o-vi'ne), n. pi. [NL., fern. pi. of LL. 
ovinus, pertaining to sheep: see ovine.] Sheep 
alone as a subfamily of Bovidir, having horns 
curved spirally outward and forward, with a 
continuous ridge along the convexity of the 
curve. Three genera are commonly referred to Ovina 
Ovis, Pseudovis, mA Ammotragits. The group includes all 
kinds of wild sheep, as the bighorn, argali, mouflon, 
musimon, and aoudad. See cuts under aoudad, bighorn, 
and Ovis. 
