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To rate too high in computation.—The king in his ac- 
compt of peace and calms, did much ove.r-c.aji his fortunes, 
which proved full of broken feas, tides, and tempefts. 
Bacon's Hen. VII. 
OVER-CAST'ING, f. A kind of needle-work. Ajli. 
To OVER-CATCH', v. a. [perhaps only in Spenfer.] 
To overtake : 
She fent an arrow forth with mightie draught, 
That in the very dore him over-caught. Fairy Queen. 
OVER-CAU'TIOUS, adj. Too cautious. 
To OVER-CH AR'GE, v. a. To opprefs ; to cloy; to 
furcharge.—On air we feed in every inftant, and on meats 
but at times; and yet the heavy load of abundance, where¬ 
with we opprefs and over-charge nature, maketh her to 
fink unawares in the mid-way. Raleigh's Hiji. of the 
World. —A man may as well expeft to grow ftronger by 
always eating, as vvifer by always reading. Too much 
over-charges nature, and turns more into difeafe than 
nourifhment. Collier. —To load ; to crowd too much.— 
Our language is over-charged with confonants. Pope .— 
To burthen: 
He whifpers to his pillow 
The fecrets of his over-charged foul. Shakefpeare , 
To rate too high : 
Here’s Glo’fter, a foe to citizens, 
O'er-charging y our free purfes with large fines. ShaheJ'peare. 
To fill too full.—The fumes of paflion do as really intoxi¬ 
cate and confound the judging and difcerning faculty, as 
the fumes of drink difcompofe and ftupify the brain of a 
man over-charged with it. Sotith.— The aft ion of the Iliad 
and Asneid, in themfelyes exceeding fhort, are fo beauti¬ 
fully extended by the invention of epifodes, that they 
make up an agreeable (lory fufficient to employ the me¬ 
mory without over-charging it. Addifon's Spectator .—To 
load with too great a charge.—As cannons over-cliarg'd 
with double cracks. Shakefpeare. 
Who in deep mines for hidden knowledge toils, 
Like guns o'er-charg'd, breaks, miifes, or recoils. Denham. 
O'VER-CHARGE, f. An excefs in the account. 
To OVER-CLl'MR, v. a. To climb over.—The fatal 
gin thus over-clambe our walls. Ld. Surrey's Tr. of Virg. 
JEn. 4. 
The childhood of the cheerful morn 
Is alrnoft grown a youth, and over-climbs 
Yonder gilt eaftern hills. Brewer's Com. of Lingua. 
To OVER-CLOU'D, v. a. To cover with clouds.—The 
labourof wicked men is to turn blefling itfelf into a curfe, 
to over-cloud joy with forrow at lead, if not defolation. 
A bp. Laud's Sermons. 
The filver emprefs of the night, 
O'er-clouded , glimmers in a fainter light. Tickell. 
To OVER-CLOY', v. a. To fill beyond fatiety : 
A fcum of Britons and bafe lackey peafants, 
Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth 
To defperate adventures and deftrudtion. Shakefpeare. 
OVER-CO'LD, adj. Too cold ; rather too cold.—A 
gangrene doth arife in phlegmons, through the unfeafon- 
able application of over-cold medicaments. Wifeman. 
OVER-CON'FIDENCE, f. Too great confidence ; pre¬ 
emption.—He has afforded us only the twilight of pro¬ 
bability, fuitable to that ftateof mediocrity he has placed 
us in here; wherein to check our over-confidence and pre¬ 
emption, we might, by every day’s experience, be made 
fenfible of our (hort-fightednefs. Locke. 
OVER-CON'FIDENT, adj. Too confident; prefump- 
tuous. 
OVER-CON'FIDENTLY, adv. With too great confi¬ 
dence; prefumptuoufly. 
To OVER-COV'ER, v. a. To cover completely : 
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Shut me nightly in a charnel-houfe, 
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men’s rattling bones, 
With reeky (hanks and yellow chaplefs (kulls. Shakefpeare. 
To OVER-COU'NT, v. a. To rate above the true value : 
Thou know’ll how much 
We do o’er-count thee. Shakefpeare's Ant. and Cleop. 
OVER-CRED'ULOUS, adj. Too credulous; too apt 
to believe : 
Deviliih Macbeth 
By many of thefe trains hath fought to win me 
Into his power: and modeft wifdom plucks me 
From over-credulous hade. Shakefpeare. 
To OVER-CRO'W, v. a. To crow as in triumph. 
Spenfer has alfo written over-craw, for the fake of the 
rhyme.—A bafe varlet, that being but of late grown out 
of the dunghil, beginneth now to over-crow fo high moun¬ 
tains, and make himfelf the great protector of all out¬ 
laws. Spenfer. 
So fpake this bold breure with great difdain : 
Little him anfwer’d the oak again, 
But yielded, with (liame and grief adawed, 
That of a weed he was over-crawcd. Spenfer. 
OVER-DA'RING, adj. Too venturefome : 
Over-daring Talbot 
Hath fullied all his glofs of former honour 
By this unheedful defperate wild adventure. Shakefpeare. 
To OVER-DA'TE, v. a. To reckon or date beyond the 
proper period.—Had he redeemed his over-dated minority 
from a pupilage under bifhops, he would much lefs have 
miftrufted his parliament. Milton's Eiconoclaft. 
OVER-DIGES'TION, f. The date of having the di- 
geftive faculties too powerful, j Flayer. 
OVER-DI'GHT, part. adj. Covered over: 
Day difeover’d heaven’s face 
To finfull men with darknefs over-dight. Fairy Queen. 
OVER-DIL'IGENT, adj. Rather too diligent. 
OVER-DIL'IGENTLY, adv. With too great diligence. 
—This part of grammar has been much negleded, as fome 
others over-diligently cultivated. It is eafy for men to 
write, one after another, of cafes and genders. Locke. 
To OVER-DO', v. a. To do more than enough.—Any 
thing fo over-done is from the purpofe of playing ; whofe 
end is to hold the mirror up to nature. Shakefpeare. —When 
the meat is over-done, lay the fault upon your lady who 
hurried you. Swift. 
To OVER-DO', v. n. To do too much.—Nature much 
oftener over-does than under-does: you (hall find twenty 
eggs with two yolks for one that has none. Grew. 
To OVER-DO'SE, v. a. To load with too large a dofe. 
OVER-DO'SE, f . A dofe larger than it ought to be.— 
A grown perfon, furfeiting with honey, no fooner hears 
the name of it, but his fancy immediately carries fick- 
nefs and qualms to his ftomach : had this happened to 
him by an over-dofe of honey when a child, all the fame 
effefls would have followed, but the caufe would have 
been miftaken, and the antipathy counted natural. Locke. 
To OVER-DRESS', v. a. To adorn lavifhly : 
In all, let nature never be forgot; 
But treat the goddefs like a modeft fair, 
Nor over-drej's, nor leave her wholly bare. Pope. 
To OVER-DRINK', v. n. [This was alfo a Saxon com¬ 
pound, opeji-bpuncan.] To drink too much ; to become 
drunk. 
To OVER-DRI'VE, v. a. To drive too hard, or beyond 
ftrength.—The flocks and herds with young, if men (hould 
over-drive one day, all will die. Gen. xxxiii. 13. 
To OVER-DRY', v. a. To dry too much.—Meats con- 
dite, powdered, and over-dried. Burton's Anat. of Mel. 
OVER-DU'E, adj. Paft the time of being due. 
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