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OVER-E'AGER, adj. Too vehement in defire.—Ihave 
feen fad examples of extravagance in the more modeft and 
private, but over-eager, purfuits of tliefe recreations, 
[games of chance.] Goodman's Wint. Ev.Conf. 
OVER-E'AGERLY, adv. With too much hafle or ve¬ 
hemence.—Purfuing them oner-eagerly into York. Mil- 
ton's Hiji. of Eng. 
To OVER-E'AT, v. n. To eat too much. 
To OVER-E'AT, v. a. To diforder by eating too much; 
as, He over-eats himfelf. 
To OVER-EY'E, v. a. To fuperintend: 
My love hath lafted from mine infan.cy, 
And (till increafed as I grew myfelf: 
When did Perfeda paftime in the ftreets. 
But her Eraftus ovcr-etfd her fports ? 
When didft thou, with thy fampler, in the fun, 
Sit fewing with thy feres, but I u’as by, 
Marking thy lily hand’s dexterity? 
Trag. of Soliman and Perfeda, 1599. 
To obferve; to remark: 
I am doubtful of your modefties, 
Left over-eyeing of his odd behaviour, 
You.break into fome merry pafiion. Sliahefpeare. 
To OVER-EM'PTY, v. a. To make too empty.—The 
women would be loth to come behind the falhion in new- 
fangiednefs of the manner, if not in coftlinefs of the 
matter, which might over-empty their hufband’s purfes. 
Came. 
O'VER-FALL, f. A fall of water; acataraft.—Toftatus 
addeth, that thole which dwell near thofe falls of water 
are deaf from their infancy, like thofe that dwell near the 
over-fads of Nilus. Raleigh's HiJl. of the World. —Part of 
the fide of a canal, or refervoir, over which the water 
runs away, or efcapes, when it is too high. The upper 
gates or fluices of opening weirs are alfo called over-falls. 
To OVER-FATI'GUE, v. a. To fatigue too much ; to 
weary too much.—Don’t overfatigue the fpirits, left the 
mind be feized with a lafiitude, and thereby naufeate and 
grow tir’d of a particular fubjeft. Watts. 
To OVER-FEE'D, v. a. To feed more than enough : 
Wretched man o'er feeds 
His cramm’d defires with more than nature needs. Dryden. 
OVER-FERMENTA'TION, f. A fermentation exe¬ 
cuted to too great a degree.—If the ferment of the breaft 
be vigorous, an over-fermentation in the part produceth 
a phlegmon. Wifeman. 
To OVER-FILL', v. a. To fill more than enough : 
Bending o’er the cup, the tears fhe filed 
Seem’d by the pofture to difeharge her head, 
O'er-fill'd before. Dryden. 
To OVER-FLO'AT, v. a. To cover as with water : 
The town is fill’d with flaughter, and o'er-floats, 
With a red deluge, their increafing moats. Dryden. 
To OVER-FLOUR'ISH, v. a. To flourilh more than 
enough ; to fet off with too great advantage.—As they 
are likely to orer-fourijh their own cafe, their flattery is 
hardeft to be difeovered ; for who would imagine himfelf 
guilty of putting tricks upon hirnfelf. Collier. 
To OVER-FLY', v. a. To crofs by flight: 
A failing kite 
Can fcarce o'ev-fly them in a day and night. Dryden. 
OVER-FON'D, adj. Too fond. 
OVER-FON'DNESS, f. Too great fondnefs.—It is an 
ill way of eftabliihing this truth, and filencing atheifts, to 
take fome men’s having that idea of God in their minds, 
for the only proof of a deity; and, out of an overfondnefs 
of that darling invention, cafhier all other arguments. 
Cocke. 
OVER-FOR'WARD, adj. Too forward; officious. 
OVER-FOR'WARDNESS, J\ Too great quicknefs; 
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too great readinefs.—By an over-forwardnefs in courts to 
give countenance to frivolous exceptions, though they 
make nothing to the true merit of the caufe, it often hap¬ 
pens that caufes are not determined according to their 
merits. Hale. 
OVER-FRE'E, adj. Too free; too generous 5 too fa¬ 
miliar. 
To OVER-FREI'GHT, v. a. pret. overfreighted, part. 
over-fraught.'] To load too heavily; to fill with toogjreat 
quantity.—A boat over-freighted with people, in rowing 
down the river, was, by th$ extreme weather, funk. Carew. 
Grief, that does not fpeak, 
Whifpers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. 
Sliahefpeare. 
OVER-FRU'ITFUL, adj. Too rich; too luxuriant.— 
Rhyme bounds and circumfcribes an over-fruitful fancy. 
Dry den's Eff. on Dram. Poefy. 
To OVER-GET', v. a. To reach ; to come up with.— 
With fix hours’ hard riding, through fo wild places, as it 
■was rather the cunning of my horfe fometimes, than of 
myfelf, fo rightly to hit the way, I over-got them a little 
before night. Sidney. 
To OVER-GIL'D, v. a. To gild over; to varnilh : 
Gold doth men’s thoughts to high attempts prepare, 
And over-gilds the danger of the warre. Ulir.for Mag. 
To OVER-GIR'D, v. a. To bind too clofely.—When 
the gentle weft winds (hall open the fruitful bofom of the 
earth, thus over-girded by your imprifonment, then the 
flowers put forth and fpring; and then the fun lhall fcat- 
ter the mills, and the ^manuring hand of the tilier lhall 
root-up all that burdens the foil, without thank to your 
bondage. Milton's Reaf. of Ch. Gov. 
To OVER-GLAN'CE, v. a. To look haftily over: 
I have but with a curfory eye 
O'er-glanc d the articles. Sliahefpeare's Hen. V. 
To OVER-GO', v. a. Tofurpafs; to excel.—Thinking 
it beyond the degree of humanity to have a wit fo far over- 
going his age, and fuch dreadful terror proceed from fo 
excellent beauty. Sidney. 
Great nature hath laid down at laft 
That mighty birth wherewith fo long flie went. 
And over-went the times of ages pall, 
Here to lie-in upon our foft content. Daniel. 
To cover: 
All which, my thoughts fay, they fliall never do, ‘ 
But rather, that the earth lhall over-go 
Some one at leaft. Chapman. 
OVER-GO'NE, part. adj. Injured; ruined. — Sad- 
hearted men, much over-gone with care. Shakefpeare's 
Hen. VI. Part III. 
To OVER-GOR'GE, v. a. To gorge too much : 
Art thou grown great, 
And, like ambitious Sylla, ovcr-gorg'dl Sliahefpeare. 
OVER-GRASS'ED, adj. Having too.much grafs ; over¬ 
grown with grafs: 
They bene like foule wagmoires over-graf, 
That, if thy galage once ftickeft fall. 
The more to wind it out thou doll fwink. 
Thou mought aye deeper and deeper fink. Spenfer. 
OVER-GREA'T, adj. Too great.—Though putting 
the mind unprepared upon an unufual ftrefs ought to be 
avoided ; yet this mult nGt run it, by an over-great fliynefs 
of difficulties, into a lazy fauntring about obvious tilings. 
Loche. 
OVER-GREE'DY, adj. Too greedy; too clofe.—The 
memory of the learner ffiould not be too much crowded 
with a tumultuous heap of ideas; one idea effaces another; 
over-greedy grafp does not retain the largeft handful. 
Watts . 
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