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[Eng. over, and laying.] A superficial covering, a coating. ( Exodus xxxviii. 17.) ō-ver-leap', *o-ver-leep, v. t. [Eng. over, and leap, v.] I. Lit .: To leap or jump over; to pa over or IMG:content-0466.png:[blocks in formation] ō-ver-leav'-en, v. t . [Eng. over , and leaven , v.] 1. To leaven too much; to cause to rise or swell 2. To intermix too much; to corrupt, to spoil. "You are not overleavened with your fortune." Ben Jonson: The Fox , v. 6. IMG:content-0467.png:[blocks in formation] "In the greater out-parishes, many of the poor parish- ioners through neglect do perish, for want of some heed- ful eye to overlook them." -Graunt: Bills of Mortality. 6. To view fully; to peruse; to go through. " Overlook this pedigree." --Shakesp.: Henry V., ii. 4. 7. To review, to look over, to revise; to examine or go through a second time. "When I had red this tale wele And overlooked it every dele." 8. To pa over with indulgence; to forgive; to allow to pa without punishment or censure. 9. To pa over without notice; to disregard, to neglect, to let pa or slip, to slight, to omit, to They have o'erlooked me and divided me." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , iii. 2. ō-ver-look-er, s. [Eng. over , and looker .] One who overlooks others; an overseer; a superintend- ent. *ō-ver-loôp, s. The same as ORLOP (q. v.). ō-ver-lord', s . [Eng. over , and lord , s.] One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord, a master. ō-ver-lord-ship, s. [English overlord ; -ship .] The dignity, office, or position of an overlord. love unduly or to exce ; to prize or value too highly. ō-ver-lŭsc-ious (sc as sh), *ō-ver-lŭsh-ious, a. [Eng. over , and luscious .] Too luscious; sweet to exce . "A taste overlush i ous ." -Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 624. ō-ver-lŭs'-tě, a. [Eng. over , and lusty .] Too lusty, lively, or merry; too licentious. "The confident and overlusty French." Shakesp.: Henry V. , chorus iv. tō-ver-lý, *o-ver-lie, a. & adv. [A. S. oferlic , 2. Too much, too great, exce ive. B. As adverb : 1. Carele ly, inattentively, slightly. "Thou doest this overlie , or onely for an outward showe." -Baret: Alvearie . (1580.) 3. Oppre ively. ( Stan i hurst : Ireland , p. 22.) ō-ver-ly-ing, pa . par . & a. [OVERLIE.] 2. Geol .: A term used by Dr. MacCulloch and others for volcanic rocks, which often overtop other strata and spread over them. It is opposed to un derlying (q. v.). ō-ver-măg-ni-fy, v . t . [Eng. over , and magnify .] To magnify too much or to exce . "They have slavish fears that do overmaster them."- Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. 1. 2. To hold or keep in one's power by superior "The crown that thou o'erm aster est." IMG:content-0468.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia ō-ver-night ( gh silent), s., a. & adv . [Eng. over , and night.] A. As subst.: Night before bedtime. "If I had given you this at overnight , She might have been o'erta'en." B. As adj .: Done or happening the night before. C. As adverb: IMG:content-0470.png:[blocks in formation] *ō-ver-përçh', v. t . [Eng. over , and perch .] Το fly over. "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2. ō-ver-per-suāde' (u as w), v . t. [Eng. over , and persuade. To persuade against one's inclination or convictions. "Overpersuaded by his landlord to take physic."- Dryden: Virgil's Eneid. (Ded.) ō-ver-pērt-ěd, a . [Eng. over ; pert; -ed.] Hav- ing too much pertne or saucine ; too pert. World , bk. ii., ch. xxii., § 10. "Over per ted with so high authority."-Raleigh: Hist . ō-ver-pěstěr, v . t . [Eng. over , and pester .] To pester to exce . *o-ver-nime', v . t. [A. S. of ern i man, from ofer abroad."- Raleigh : Hist. World , bk. ii., ch. xiv., § 4. over, and nim an =to take.] To overtake; to seize. "The cold of deth, that had him over no me ." 2. To pa through; to go through; to endure. "The perils that he hath overpa ed ."- North : Plutarch; "It seems you have abjured the help which men Who overpa their kind as you would do Have humbly sought." Browning: Para cels us, i. B. In trans.: To pa by; to cease by pa ing. "Pause till this heat be somewhat overpast ." IMG:content-0471.png:[blocks in formation] "Be thou drawen up by the roote, and be ouerplantid into the see." - Wycliffe : Luke xvii. 2. To plant too much; to overstock with plants. ō-ver-plēaşe', v. t. [Eng. over , and please .] To please, delight, or gratify to exce . IMG:content-0472.png:[blocks in formation] ō'-ver-plŭs, s. [Eng.over, and plus .] A surplus; that which remains over and above the quantity required or proposed; exce , balance. "He duly went with what small overplus His earnings might supply." Words worth: Excursion, bk. i. ō-ver-ply', v. t. [Eng. over , and ply .] To ply to exce ; to employ in too great labor; to overwork. "What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, Friend, t' have lost them overplied In liberty's defense." Milton : Sonnet 22. ō-ver-poişe', *o-ver-poyse, v . t . [English over , and poise .] To weigh more than; to outweigh, to overbalance. IMG:content-0473.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0474.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To fatigue or exhaust by too much or too long riding. *2. To overtake and pa in riding. "My lord, I overrode him on the way." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt. II . , 1. 1. *B. In trans.: To exercise rule or authority; to govern; to rule. "Thus he that overruled I overswayed." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 109. ō-ver-rûl-er, s. [English overrul (e); -er.] One who or that which overrules, directs, or governs. "Proof, the overruler of opinions."-Sidney: Defense of Poesy. ō-ver-rûl'-ing, pr . par . or a . [OVERRULE.] ō-ver-rûl-Ing-ly, adv . [Eng. overruling ; -ly.] In an overruling manner. ō-ver-rŭn', *o-ver-renne, *o-ver-rune, v . t . & i. [Eng. over , and run .] To search over or through; to examine. ō'-ver-sēaş, adv . [Eng. over, and seas.] The same as OVERSEA (q. v.). "Sick of home, went overseas for change." Tennyson: Walk to the Mail. ō-ver-sēaş-ön, v . t . [Eng. over , and season , v.] To season too much; to give too high or strong a relish, flavor, or taste to. ( Lit. & fig .) "Overseas on'd with base anger." *1. To look down upon; to despise. *2. Το overlook; to pa over or by; to omit, to neglect; not to notice. I. Ordinary Language: 1. To run over; to spread over; to grow over; to thereon, but mi e and ouersee themselfe in the a aye."- "The chilling cold did over rune their bones." 2. To invade and hara by hostile incursions. "If he advances into Con naught, let us overrun Lein- ster."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xvii. 3. To take po e ion of; to po e , to fill. "He was overrun with melancholy humors." -Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. ii. 5. To injure by treading or trampling down. "That now is all trampled and overrun."-Spenserı State of Ireland. *6. To outrun; to run faster than and leave behind; to outstrip in running. "Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi."-2 Samuel xviii. 23. II. Print.: To carry over parts of lines, columns, or pages in corrections, in the introduction of new matter, or in the contraction or expansion of col- umns. IMG:content-0475.png:[blocks in formation] ō-ver-sāil', v. i. [Eng. over , and sail , v.] Arch .: To project beyond the general face. ō-ver-sat-u-rāte, v. t. [Eng. over , and satu- rate.] To saturate to exce . ō-ver-sāy', v. t. [Eng. over , and say.] To say over; to repeat. ō-ver-sçent', v. t. [Eng. over , and scent , v.] 1. To scent to exce . 2. To scent, so as to hide or disguise the original smell. IMG:content-0476.png:[blocks in formation] ō-ver-scrû-pu-los-1-ty, s . [Eng. over , and scrupulosity .] The quality or state of being over- scrupulous; over scrupulousne . ō-ver-scrû'-pu-lous, a . [Eng. over , and scrupu- lous .] Too scrupulous; scrupulous to exce . c-ver-scrû'-pu-lous-ne , s. [Eng. over , and scrupulousne .] The same as OVERSCRUPULOS ITY (q. v.). ō'-ver-sēa, a. & adv . [Eng. over , and sea .] A. As adj .: Foreign; from beyond sea; not IMG:content-0477.png:[blocks in formation] "And whan she wist how that it stood, And had her billes ouerseyne , IMG:content-0478.png:[blocks in formation] *2. To subvert, to destroy, to overthrow. *3. To throw out of regularity. IMG:content-0479.png:[blocks in formation] 2963 ō-ver-skip', v . t . [Eng. over , and skip , v.] 1. To skip or leap over; to pa by leaping. 2. To pa over; to skip; to neglect. "Huge great blocks that I have overskipped in this whole book."- Bp . Hall : Answer to the Vind. of Smeotymnuus. 3. To escape. "But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip." Shakesp.: Lear, iii. 6.