overworn

[Eng. over, and worn.] 1. Worn out or exhausted by labor or toil; tired 2. Worn out by use. out. "In slavish habit, ill-fitted weeds O'erworn and soiled." Milton: Samson Agonistes , 123. 2966 ō-vi-bos, 8. [Lat. ovis =a sheep, and bos =an ox, a bull, a cow.] 1. Zool .: A genus of Bovide, with a single species ( Ovibos moschatus), the Musk-ox (q. v.), having affinities, as its generic name denotes, with both the sheep and the ox. 2. Palæont .: In Post-Tertiary times it extended over a great part of Europe, and its remains are abundant in the bone-caves of France of that age. ō'-vi-çěll, s. [Pref. ovi- , and English cell .] The same as OÖCYST (q. v.). *ō-vi-çide, s . [Lat. ovis =a sheep, and cædo (in composition cido )=to kill.] The slaughter of sheep. (Barham: Ing . Leg.; Jarvis' Wig .) ō-vic'-u-lar, adj. [Lat. ovum =an egg.] Of or pertaining to an egg; resembling an egg.