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[Eng. over, and full.] Too full; filled to overflowing; surfeited. "Being overfull of self-affairs, My mind did lose it." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1. ō-ver-glide', *o-ver-glyde, v. t. [Eng. over, and glide.] To glide over. "[That sonne] whose glaunsing light the cords dyd ouerglyde."- Wyatt : Ps . 32. The Auctor . ō-ver-gloôm', v. t. [Eng. over, and gloom.] 1. To cover or overspread with gloom; to render gloomy. 2. To overshadow. ( Cole ridge : To Cottle .) ō-ver-glŭt', a. [Eng. over , and glut .] Overfed. "While epicures are over glut , I ly and starve for food." Breton : Mel ancho like Humours , p. 9. ō-ver-gō', v. t. & i. [Eng. over, and go.] A. Transitive: 1. To go beyond; to exceed; to pa . "The bounds once overgone that hold men in, They never stay." Daniel: Civil Wars, iv. 2. To exceed; to surpa ; to go beyond. 3. To pa over; to cover. "A large cloude hem ouerwent." Gower: C. A., V. 4. To pa or travel over. "Many weary miles you have o'ergone." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. 5. To weigh down; to oppre . "Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . III ., ii. 5. B. In trans.: To pa by; to go by. "The erle ansuerd nouht, he lete that word ouergo." Robert de Brunne, p. 220. ō-ver-gone', pa. par. or a. [OVERGO.] ō-ver-gorge', v. t. [Eng. over, and gorge, v.] Το gorge to exce ; to stuff. "Such as long power and overgorged succe Concentrates into all that's mercile ." Byron: Lara, ii. 7. tō-ver-grāçe', v . t . [Eng. over , and grace , v.] To honor unduly or exce ively. "But that you think to over grace me with The marriage of your sister, troubles me." Beaum & Flet.: King and No King , 1. 1. *o-ver-gra et, *o-ver-grast, *o-ver-graste, a . [Eng. over , and gra .] Overgrown or covered with "For they bene like fowle wagmoires overgrast ." Spenser.: Shepheards Calender ; Sept. [Eng. over , and gra . ō'-ver-great, *o-ver-gret, a, great.] Too great; great beyond measure. ō-ver-great-ne , s. [Eng.over, and greatne .] The quality or state of being over-great; exce ive or undue greatne . ō-ver-greēd, adj. [Eng. over, and greedy.] Exce ively or unduly greedy. "The commonwealth is sick of their own choice, Their overgreedy love hath surfeited." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., i. 3. overhastily ō-ver-green', v. t . [Eng. over, and green.) 1. Lit .: To cover with verdure. 2. Fig .: To embellish; to color favorably. "You o'ergreen my bad, my good allow." Shakesp.: Sonnet, 112. ō'-ver-grō , a. [Eng. over , and gro .] Gro to exce ; too gro . as is not over gro ." ō-ver-grown', pa . par . or a . [OVERGROW.] ō'-ver-growth, s. [Eng. over , and growth .] 1. Ord. Lang.: Exce ive or exuberant growth. "A sequent king, who seeks To stop their overgrowth ."- Milton : P. L. , xii. 166. †2. Bot .: A ti ue consisting of elevated cushion- shaped ma es of cells formed over the surface of a wound in the stem of a plant, as, for instance, when a branch is cut off. ( Thomé .) "The frosty night Her mantle black thro' heaven gan overhale." Spenser: Shepherd's Calender; Jan. 2. To overhaul; to examine. ō-ver-hănd, adv., a. & 8. [Eng. over , and hand.] A. As adv .: With the hand uppermost; with the knuckles upward; with the arm above the shoulder; as, in cricket, to bowl overhand . B. As adj.: Delivered with the arm above the shoulder; as overhand bowling. C. As subst.: The upper hand; superiority, mastery. "He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me."- Sir T. More: Works, p. 965.