overflow gage (overflogaj)

A device in the nature of an overflow-pipe attached to the case of a wet gas-meter to maintain a con stant water-line in the drum, and thereby insure accuracy in its measurements, and also to permit a constant change of water and discharge of impurities deposited from the gas. overflowing (ō-ver-flō'ing), n. A flowing over; overflow; superabundance; surplus. Hab. iii. 10. The overflowing of the water pa ed by. We have broken our covenant, and we must be saved by the excrescences and overflowings of mercy. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 179. Wide and more wide, the o'erf lowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind. Pope , E ay on Man, iv. 369. overflowing (ō-ver-flō'ing), p . a. More than full; abundant; copious; exuberant. Her fields a rich expanse of wavy corn, Pour'd out from Plenty's overflowing horn. ce ; too luxuriant. It had formerly been said that the easine of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant, but that the labour of rhyme bounds and circumscribes an over - fruitful fancy. Dryden, E ay on Dram. Poesy.