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much the fame with betraying people into an opinion, 
that they are in a virtuous and happy (late, when they 
are over-run with pafiion and drowned in their lulls. 
L'Eftrange. — To injure by treading down. — Among 
printers, to change the difpolition of lines and words, by 
reafon of infertions or erafures. 
To OVER-RUN', v. n. To overflow ; to be more than 
full.—Cattle in inclofures fhall always have frelh pafture, 
that now is all trampled and overrrun. Spenfer. 
Though you have left me, 
Yet Hill my foul o'er-ruiis with fondnefs towards you. Smith. 
OVER-RUN'NER, f. One who roves over in a hoitile 
manner: 
Vandal o'er-runners, Goths in literature, 
Ploughmen that would Parnaflus new manure. 
Lovelace's Luc. Pojlh. 1659. 
OVER-SCUT / CHT, adj. [front over and fcotch.\ 
Flogged with a whip.—Sung thofe tunes to the ovrr-fcutcht 
hufwives that he heard the carmen whiftle. Sliakejpeare's 
Hen. IV. P. II. 
OVER-SE'A, adj. Foreign ; from beyond fens.— Some 
faf-journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as 
they love to go in forrein apparel, fo they will powder 
their talke with over-feu language. Wi(fan's Arte ofRliet. 
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To OVER-SHA'DE, v. a. To cover with any thing 
that caufes darknefs.—No great and mighty fubjedl might 
eclipfe or over-Jhade the imperial power, j Bacon. 
Dark cloudy death o'er-Jhitdes his beams of life, 
And he nor fees nor hears us. Shakefpeare. 
To OVER-SHAD'OW, v.a. To throw a fliadow over 
any thing.—Weeds choak and over-jkadow the corn, and 
bear it down, or ftarve and deprive it of nourilhment. 
Bacon. 
Darknefs mud ovor-Jhudow all his bounds, 
Palpable darknefs, and blot cut three days. Milton's P.L. 
To flielter; to protefl; to cover with fuperior influence. 
—My overjhadowing fpirit and might with thee I lend 
along. Milton. 
On her Ihould come 
The Holy Ghoft, and the Power of the Kigheft 
O'er-Jhadow her. Milton's P. Regained. 
OVER-SHAD'OWER, f. One who throws a (hade 
over any thing.—Your nobility in a right dillance be¬ 
tween crown and people ; no opprelfors of the people, no 
cver-jhadowers of the crown. Bacon's Lett, to the King, a 
Jan. 1618. 
To OVER-SKOO'T, v.n. To fly beyond the mark.— 
Often it drops, or overfhoots, by the disproportions of dif- 
tance or application. Collier on Reafon. 
To OVER-SHOO'F, v.a. To (hoot beyond the mark. 
—Every inordinate appetite defeats its own fatisfadlion, 
by over footing the mark it aims at. TillotJ'on.— To pafs 
iwiftly over: 
High-rais'd on fortune’s hill, new Alpes he fpies, 
O'cr-Jhouts the valley which beneath him lies. 
Forgets the depths between, and travels with his eyes. 
Harte. 
[With the reciprocal pronoun.] To venture too far; to 
aflert too much.—Leave it to themfelves to confider, 
whether they have in this point or not over-Jhot themfelves; 
which is quickly done, even when our meaning is moll 
lincere. Hooker .— In finding fault with the laws, I doubt 
me you fhall much cver-Jhoot yourj’elf, and make me the 
more diflikeyour other diflikes of that government. Speu- 
Jer on Ireland. 
OVER-SI'ZE, adj. Above the ufual fize. 
To OVER-SI'ZE, v.a. To furpafs in bulk. — Thofe 
bred in a mountainous country, over-fze thofe that dwell 
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on low levels. Sundys's Journeij. — [Over and fize, a corn- 
poll with which ntafons cover walls.] To planer over: 
He, thus o'er-fiz'd with coagulate gore, 
Old grandfire Priam feeks. Shake fpeare's Hamlet. 
To OVER-SKIP', v. a. To pafs by leaping.—Prefume 
not ye that are Iheep, to make yourlelves guides of them 
that fliould guide you ; neither leek ye to cvcr-Jkip the 
fold, which they about you have pitched. Hooker. —To 
pafs over: 
Mark if, to get them, flie o'er-flap the reft ; 
Mark if Ihe read them twice, or kifs the name. Donne. 
To efcape : 
When that hour o'er-fkips me in the day, 
Wherein High not, Julia, for thy fake ; 
The next enfuing hour fome foul mifchance 
Torment me ! Sliakejpeare's Two Gent, of Vor. 
Who alone fullers, fuffers moil i’ the mind ; 
But then the mind much fufi’erance does o'er-Jkip, 
When grief hath mates and bearing r'ellowlhip. Shakefp. 
To OVER-SLEE'P, v. a. To deep too long. 
To OVER-SLIP', v. a. To pafs undone, unnoticed, or 
unufed ; to neglefl.— He that hath over-Jlipt fuch op¬ 
portunities, is to bewail and retrieve them betimes. Ham¬ 
mond. 
'To OVER-SLOW, v. a. To render flow ; to check ; to 
curb.—Means able to over-flow this furious driver. Ham¬ 
mond. 
To OVER-SNO'W, v.a. To cover with fnow.—Ere 
age unllrung my nerves, or time o'erfnow'd my head. 
Dryden's JEn. 
For never-reding time leads dimmer on 
To hideous winter, and confounds him there; 
Sap check'd with froft, and lully leaves quite gone. 
Beauty o'erfnow'd, and barenefs everywhere. Shakefp. 
OVER-SO'LD, part. Sold at too high a price: 
Life with eafe I can difclaim. 
And think it over fold to purchafe fame. Dry den. 
GVER-SOO'N, aclv. Too foon.—The lad may prove 
well enough, if he over foon think not too well of him- 
felf, and will bear away that he heareth of his elders. 
Sidney. 
To OVER-SOR'ROW, v.a. To afflifl with too much 
forrow.—The much-wronged and over farrowed date of 
matrimony. Milton's D06I. and Difiv. of Div. 
To OVER-SPE'AK, v. a. To fay too much ; to exprefs 
in too many words ; with the reciprocal pronoun —De- 
lcribing a linall fly, he extremely over-worded and over- 
J’pahe himfelf in his expreflion of it; as if he had fpokea 
of the Neinean lion. Hales. 
OVER-SPEN'T, part. Wearied ; harafied ; forefpent. 
The verb over-Jpend is not ufed. 
Theftylis, wild thyme, and garlick beat3, 
For harveft-hinds, o' erf pent with toil and heats. Dryden, 
To OVER-SPREAD', v.a. To cover over; to fill; to 
fcatter over.— Of the three fons of Noah was the whole 
earth over-Jpread. Gen. ix. 19.—Not a deluge that only 
over-run fome particular region ; but that over-Jpread the 
face of the whole earth, from pole to pole, and from eail to 
weft. Burnet. 
Darknefs Europe’s face did over-Jpread, 
From lazy cells, where fuperllition bred. Denham. 
To OVER STAN'D, v.a. To Hand too much upon 
conditions : „ 
Her’s they fiiall be, fince you refufe the price : 
What madman would o'er-Jiand his market tw'ice ? Bryd. 
To OVER-STA'RE, v. n. To flare widely.—Some war- 
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