OVERFLOW

v. n.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

2.
v.

To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

3.
v.

To run over the bounds.

4.
v.

To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.

5.
n.

A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon.

6.
n.

That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak.

7.
n.

An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.