overload switch (over lods wich)

A device used in regulating the discharge of an accumulator or storage-battery, by the operation of which a too rapid discharge is prevented. overlock (ō-vér-lok'), v. t. To turn the key in a lock, after locking, in such a manner as to push (the bolt) beyond its normal position when locked. The way to open it then is to turn the key the other way, as if to overlock the bolt. Encyc . Brit ., XIV. 746. overlook (ō-vér-lük'), v. t. [ over loo ken ; over + look1 .] 1. To look over; view from a higher place; see from a higher position. Off with his head, and set it on York gates. So York may overlook the town of York. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 180. I will do it with the same respect to him as if he were alive, and overlooking my paper while I write. Dryden. Half that the Devil o'erlooks from Lincoln town. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 246. overlook 2. To rise or be elevated above; rise so high as to afford the means of looking down on. Shall.. Our scions, put in wild and savage stock, Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds, And overlook their grafters? Shak., Hen. V., iii. 5. 9. Four gray walls, and four gray towers, Overlook a space of flowers. IMG:content-2029.png:[blocks in formation] sure or estimate too largely. Bacon, Kingdoms and Estates. Therefore no marvaile if they abate contrition, by a cover measure (ō-vér-mezh'ūr), v. t. To mea- quiring onely a sufficient and enough, a kinde of overly desire to serve God anew. Bp . Mountagu , Appeal to Cæsar, xxxvi. So have we seen a hawk cast off at an hernshaw to look and fli quite other way, and, after many carele and overly fetches, to toure up unto the prey intended. Bp . Hall , Quo Vadis, § 15. A little heathy mound, That overlooked the scrubby woods and low. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 348. 3. To view fully; look over; peruse; read. Whan I had red this tale wel, And overloked hyt every del. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 232. I would I had o'erlooked the letter. Shak., T. G. of V., i. 2. 50. The time and care that are required To overlook and file, and polish well, Fright poets from that nece ary toil. Roscommon, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. 4. To keep an eye on; inspect; superintend; oversee; care for or watch over. His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlook ing . Shak., All's Well, i. 1. 45. We say "He overlooked the transaction," meaning that he gave it his supervision. A. Phelps , English Style, p. 152. 5. To look beyond or by so as to fail to see, or so as to disregard or neglect; pay no attention to; disregard; hence, to pa over indulgently; excuse; forbear to punish or censure. The learned and wise of this world seem to have been overlooked by God in the first plantation of the Gospel. Bp. Atterbury , Sermons, I. iv. The fault he has I fairly shall reveal (Could you o'erlook but that): it is to steal. Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 20. Finding that, if he [Dryden] continued to call himself a Protestant, his services would be overlooked , he declared himself a Papist. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vii. 6. To bewitch by looking on; confound; un settle. Beshrew your eyes; They have o'erlook'd me and divided me. Shak ., M. of V., iii. 2. 15. I tell you she has overlooked me, and all this doctor's stuff is no use unle you can say a charm as will undo her devil's work. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, viii. overlook (ō'vėr-lük), n. A strong-growing leguminous twining plant of the tropics, Can a vali a ensiform is. It is so named by the West Indian negroes, who plant it to mark boundaries, with the idea that it acts as a watchman.