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To OVER-GRO'W, v. a. To cover with growth.— 
With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'er-grown. Mil- 
tons Lytidas. 
Roof, and floor, and walls, were all of gold. 
But over-grown with duft and old decay, 
And hid in darknefs, that none could behold 
The hue thereof. Spenfer. 
To rife above.—If the binds be very ftrong, and much 
over grown the poles, fome advife to ftrike off their heads 
with along fwitch. Mortimer. 
To OVER-GRO'W, v. n. To grow beyond the fit or 
natural fize.—A huge over-grown ox was grazing in a mea¬ 
dow. L'EJirange. 
Him for a happy man I own, 
Whofe fortune is not over-grown. Swift. 
OVER-GRO'WTH, f. Exuberant growth.—The for¬ 
tune in being the firft in an invention, doth caufq fome- 
times a wonderful over-growth in riches. Bacon. 
The over-growth of fome complexion, 
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reafon. Shakefp . 
To OVER-HA'LE, v. a. To fpread over: 
The welked Phoebus gan availe 
His weary wain ; and now the frofty night 
Her mantle black through heaven gan over-haile. Spenfer. 
To OVER-HAN'DLE, v. a. To mention too often : 
You will fall again 
Into your idle over-handled theme. Shakefpeare. 
To OVER-HANG', v. a. To jut over; to impend over. 
—If you drink tea upon a promontory that over-hangs the 
lea, it is preferable to an aflembly. Pope. 
Hide me, ye forefts, in your clofeft bowers ! 
Where flows the murmuring brook, inviting dreams, 
Where bordering hazel over-hangs the ltreams. Gay. 
To OVER-HANG', v.n. To jut over: 
The red was craggy cliff, that over-hung 
Still as it rofe, impoflible to climb. Milton's P. L. 
OVER-HAR'D, adj. Rather too hard; harder than it 
ought to be. 
To OVER-HAR'DEN, v. a. To make too hard.—By 
laying it in the air, it has acquired fuch a hardnefs, that 
it was brittle, like over-hardened fteel. Boyle. 
OVER-HA'STILY, adv. In too great a hurry.—Ex¬ 
cepting myfelf and two or three more, that mean not over- 
hdjlily to marry. Hale's Lett, to Sir D. Carleton, 1618. 
OVER-HA'STINESS, f. Precipitation ; too much hafte. 
—His reply was, that it was well if the duke’s over-liaj'ti- 
nrj's did not turn to his difadvantage. Rerejby's Mem. 
OVER-HA'STY, aelj. Too quick; in too great hafte. 
— Not over-hajly to cleanfe or purify. Hammond's Works. 
To OVER-HAU'L, v. a. [Afea-tenm.] To unfold or 
loofen an affemblage of tackle.—To examine over again. 
—I have this day received your plain letter. In it you 
have over-hauled the whole affair, which is already before 
the public with all its circumftances. Lowth's Lett, to 
Warburton, 
OVER-HEAD', adv. Aloft; in the zenith ; above; in 
the ceiling.—The four ftars over-head reprefent the four 
children. Addifon. 
Over-head the moon 
Sits arbitrefs, and nearer to the earth 
Wheels her pale courfe. Milton's P. L. 
To OVER-HE'AR, v. a. To hear thofe who do not 
mean to be heard.—The witnefs, over-hearing the word 
^pillory repeated, flunk away privately. Addifon. 
That fuch an enemy we have, who feeks 
Our ruin, both, by thee inform’d, I learn, 
And from the parting angel over-heard. Milton's P. L. 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1225. 
To OVER-HE'AT, v. a. To heat too much.—It muff 
be done upon the receipt of the wound, before the patient’s 
fpirits be over-heated with pain or fever. Wifemrn. 
Pleas’d with the form and coolnefs of the place, 
And over-heated by the morning chace. Addifon. 
To OVER-HE'LE, v. a. To cover over: 
Thy rude voice, that doth fo hoarfely blow; 
Thy hair, thy beard, thy wings, o'er-hel'd with fnow. 
B. Jonjon’s Mafques at Court. 
To OVER-HEN'D, v. a. To overtake ; to reach : 
Als his fair leman, flying through a brook, 
Heover-hent , nought moved with her piteous look. Spenfer . 
To OVER-JOY', v. a. To tranfport; to ravifh.— He 
that puts his confidence in God only, is neither over¬ 
joyed in any great good things of this life, nor forrowful 
for a little thing. Bp. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. 
This love-fick virgin, over-joy'd to find 
The boy alone, ftill follow’d him behind. AddiJ'on, 
OVER-JOY', Tranfport; eeftafy : 
The mutual conf’rence that my mind hath had, 
Makes me the bolder to falute my king 
With ruder terms; fuch as my wit affords, 
And over joy of heart doth minifter. Shakefpeare. 
OVER-KEST', pret. [ufed by Spenfer for over-caft.]— 
There a fad cloude of fieepe her over-kejt. Fairy Queen. 
To OVER-LA'BOUR, v. a. To take too much pains on 
any thing; to harafs with toil: 
She without noife will over-fee 
His children and his family; 
And order all things till he come, 
Sweaty and over-labour'd, home. Dryden. 
To OVER-LA'DE, v. a. To over-burthen: 
Thus to throng and over-lade a foul 
With love, and then to have a room for fear. 
That fhall all that controul. 
What is it but to rear 
Our paflions and our hopes on high. 
That thence they may defery 
The nobleft way how to defpair and die i Suckling. 
OVER-LAN'DERBROECK, a town of the Nether¬ 
lands, in the department of Utrecht: two miles north 
of Duerftede. 
OVER LAR'GE, adj. Larger than enough.—Our at¬ 
tainments cannot be over-large, and yet we manage a nar¬ 
row' fortune very unthriftily. Collier. 
To OVER-LASH', v. n. To exaggerate.—We are not 
accountable for every hyperbolical flafh or flourifh oc¬ 
curring in the Fathers; it being well known that they, in 
their encomiaftic fpeeches, as orators are wont, following 
the heat and gaiety of fancy, do fometimes over-lajh, 
Barrow on the Pope's Supr. 
OVER-LASH'INGLY, adv. With exaggeration. A 
mean word, now obfolete.— Although I be far from their 
opinion who write over-lajhivgly, that the Arabian tongue 
is in life in two-third parts of the inhabited world, yet I 
find that it extendeth where the religion of Mahomet is 
profeffed. Brerewood. 
To OVER-LAU'NCH, v. a. in (hip-building, to run the 
butt of one plank to a certain diftance beyond the next 
butt above or beneath it, in order to make a ltronger work. 
Chambers. 
To OVER-LA'Y, v.a. To opprefs by too much weight 
or power.—When any country is over-laid by the multi¬ 
tude which live upon it, there is a natural neceflity com¬ 
pelling it to dilburchen itfelf and lay the load upon others, 
Raleigh. 
Some commons are barren, the nature is fuch; 
And fome over-layeth the commons too much. Tujfer. 
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